DON'T LOSE HEART
Galatians 6:9
And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart
One archery elk season in southern Colorado I was guiding with a group of other guides. My first hunter had tagged out on a great bull elk and I was blessed to guide Harris for the last couple of days. On the last morning of his hunt we started low on the mountain, at about 8,000 feet of elevation, where we had been seeing some good bulls. We got on the bulls right away but they were headed uphill quickly, chasing a heard of cow elk.
We followed them all morning going straight uphill through the aspens and spruce. Three or four times I was able to call bulls out of the herd and into only feet of us, but each time they were younger bulls and not what Harris was after. There were times we felt like giving up as we felt like we would never catch the herd, but we kept going. At about 1:00 we, had climbed to about 10,000 ft and decided to stop for a snack. I radioed the camp and told them we would be staying out for the day.
After relaxing for only 4-5 minutes a bull bugled just below us. We jumped up and off we went. Suddenly there were several bulls calling and as we got close one big bull came running in from above us and stopped at 20 yards. Harris made a good shot and the hunt was over. After 6 hours of pushing hard, straight up the mountain, it happened so easily. I couldn't help but think if we had gotten a bull early down low on the mountain, we would have missed out on an awesome day of elk hunting.
It is so easy to "lose heart" when we work and work at a project and don't see progress. Or, we pray for something or someone and it seems as though nothing is happening. We need to not grow weary and remember that God's timing is not our timing. Our entire lifetime cannot be more than a dot on the "line" of eternity and what we view as a "long time", is nothing in God's view of eternity. That thing you have worried about or worked on for a week, a month, a year or more is just waiting for God's timing to be perfect.
Isaiah 40:31 tells us... "but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint."
When we wait on the Lord's timing things are working into His will and not our own. When we are impatient and try to do things in our own timing or get discouraged and quit we miss out on God's blessings. Be patient, stay the course, when we allow God to work in and through us, in His timing, whatever it is that we are called to will work just as He's planned
Wait on the Lord's timing and don't lose heart. He knows what your waiting on and has a perfect plan.
ECCLESIASTES 3:1
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven
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