PERSISTENT MARCH

Persistent March©

A Limerick A Day to Keep You On Your Way©

Begin again to do all you can.

Forget what looked like a failed plan.

Failure is success.

A test, just to bless.

So March on forward, persist on man.

Persistent March

 If we think February is long and dreary even though it is the shortest month, March feels never-ending.  But the promise of spring helps us endure.  We sense it in the smell of the air. It’s our signal, new life is coming. The ground may still be hard but the death of winter is part of the cycle of new life. Trees, grass, and flowers die off only to emerge again.  Birds are heard chirping again.  Signs of life are persistently returning.  They didn’t fail in their “dying”.  No, they withstood the test of winter to bring us new life.

Jesus also persisted.  His heavenly Father gave him a test of great sacrifice and price, persisting unto death. The world thought Jesus failed the test of perseverance as He died nailed to the cross. That perseverance paid the debt of sin, shame, poverty, and sickness.  God knows the heart of man is full of evil intent.  Man can never save himself from it. Only a Holy and Righteous God can redeem His creation.   Jesus persevered unto the death that makes us free from eternal damnation.  The death that gives us freedom to live. The death that was not failure but success.

Let us look at  March as the month we persist in each year to view what may look like failures but are just test to keep going forward. Good will always overcome evil.  New life is coming.  Persist.  March on.

Pray this prayer with me.

Dear Jesus,

Thank You Jesus for persisting unto death.  We are in need every day to overcome the evil that persists in all of mankind. Until the day evil is done, Lord, grant us great courage and persistence to complete our assignments.  Grant us wisdom, counsel, and strength to perform mighty deeds in the ordinary battles of life as well as the great battles.  All honor and glory are Yours, forever and ever.  Amen.

Written by Paula Ann Kochanek

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