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Keep On Keepin On

by Ted Tussey on June 11, 2020

How have our lives changed over the past several months? Oh, let me count the ways   . . .  On second thought, I don’t think I will because the list would go on and on, and I really don’t want to go there. All of us have experienced dramatic changes in our lives which have caused disappointment, frustration and sometimes, anger. I’ve carefully observed our 18-year-old granddaughter Casey, who graduated from Hanover High School this week. Like most graduates in the Class of 2020, she is disappointed that there weren’t any normal commencement exercises or festive celebration events that most everybody reading this has experienced. Through this time, however, she has kept a positive attitude and is looking forward to beginning her college career (in some form) in mid-August. We’re so proud of her, not only for her accomplishments, but that instead of having a big “pity party,” she is persevering through this present time. Persistence, determination and resolve are helpful attributes for new graduates, as well as everyone else, to help us travel life’s uncertain roads.

In the business world, sales managers and trainers report that most salespeople whose careers fail, do so NOT because of lack of intelligence, education, product knowledge or the desire to succeed, BUT because of a lack of persistence and perseverance. An old adage says that it takes an average of seven calls to a perspective customer/client to win the account or make the sale. Most salespeople stop at about three or four calls.

Paul speaks of perseverance in the New Testament. “Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.” – Romans 5: 3 & 4.  “And let us run with persistence the race marked out for us.” – Hebrews 12:1b.

PERSEVERANCE – It’s a great attribute for a Christ-follower to have in good times, in troubled times and in all times. Just “keep on, keepin on . . .

  “Because you know the testing of our faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” – James 1:3 & 4.

Ted Tussey

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