PERSERVERANCE

When my so Ryan was a jr. in high school, he taught me a wonderful truth about perservance.that is GOIN' THRU'.
Ryan was typing up a huge term paper on our computer. Sarah, our daughter who was 2 at the time....just loved to be around Ryan..............and she was kind of a cute "pet" for him! She would follow him everywhere, and just want to be around him. This particular night, as he worked so hard and looonnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggggg typing this paper.............Sarah decided she would "help" and pushed a button on the computer.She was NOT his pet for awhile after that!!!! OPPPPPPS!! I mean OOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPSSSSSSSSSSSS! Whatever she did was NOT good! We could not get the computer to save, print, nothing!
The next step was taking Ryan to "Kinko's" ...a place that stayed open 24/7. Soooo, we let Ryan type for about 2 hrs. and their computer pooped out.they could not save anything.. they decided to waive the fee Since it was their fault).So , he started to type AGAIN and what do you think?????????????? It happened ALL OVER AGAIN!!! Since it was "Kinko's" fault , they again didn't charge us, but it was now 2:00 a.m. Well, Ryan kept plugging and at 4:00 a.m. he had success!!!!
I don't know if I could have kept going... he really pressed thru' and completed his course! His teacher had NO idea of what he (and we) had gone thru' for him to complete his assignment on time, but I knew that God knew!
We had a computer repair man come the next day.he charged us alot, and couldn't figure it out.then we had a friend that was good with computers come over and take the computer apart and what do you suppose he found?! There was a BASBALL card stuck in the place you put c.ds . The problem was solved, Ryan got his paper done (with an A) AND.. we learned such a valuable lesson from him by watching how he "set his face like flint" to complete his course..Colosian s 4:17 says "see to it that you COMPLETE the work the Lord has given you" It's easy to start well, but to keep going amidst life's difficulties?
Romans 5: 3-5 says "and not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance, and perseverance, character, and character, hope. Now, hope does not dissapoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us".
thank you for teaching us to set our face like flint (as Jesus did ) when He went to Jerusalem !
Thank you, Lord for the picture you gave to our home about goin' thru'!!!!! and how you meet us And reward us!