Just do it!!!

Have you ever felt like this? Sometimes the weight of responsibility can feel like a huge rock and it takes every ounce of strength just to hold things together. Such was my condition at twenty one, with three young children, a mortgage, a car payment, a dog and a parakeet. And I would do it all over again too, because it was the right thing to do; to stand by my family and the commitments I made. The Corinthians Christians needed to persevere as well. They had to get rid of those things that were wrong at Corinth and they needed to JUST DO IT!!! So, Paul writes this verse to them and although its short, it says a great deal.

1 Cor 16:13
13 Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. NASB

It can be easy to be complacent, to adopt other standards that those we know to be right and to be weak in our actions. But God (and of course, Paul) expects us to be strong spiritually and actually live our faith. Besides, if you don't push against the difficult things in life, THEY WILL CRUSH YOU. Splat!