I am fan of the band OneRepublic. And they have this song that I have absolutely been digging lately called Marching On. With lines like, “For those days we felt like a mistake, Those times when love’s what you hate, Somehow, We keep marchin on” or ” We’ll have the days we break, And we’ll have the scars to prove it, We’ll have the bomb that we saved, And we’ll have the heart, Not to lose it, For all of the times we fought, For all of the things i’m not,” – this song has kind of resonated within me.

Many times I feel like I am just going through the motions of life and anymore I feel like I am just waiting for the next thing to happen to our family. It’s been a tough year or so and with that it has been extremely easy to look for rest stops along the path.

I remember in Bible School when I would leave Wichita really late at night to drive back to Tulsa. The drive to Tulsa from Wichita is boring. The drive from I-35 to Tulsa on the Cimarron Turnpike is the worst. Many times I would count the cars on the stretch of road and a busy night would be upwards to 50 cars. I remember fighting sleep on the drive and being tempted to stop at the one stop on the highway to take a nap. I knew if I would do that, I would sleep through the night there and get in trouble with our housing director for not getting in when I told them I would. So I had to keep going and when I finally got back to my apartment, I was so thankful to be in my bed. There were some trips where it would so hard, but it was always worth the driving through.

I am understanding that life is really like that too. We face so many obstacles and challenges in life and it is easy to question what hope we have. Sometimes we feel like all of the odds are against us, but this song from OneRepublic kind of reminds me that, like my drive back to Tulsa, we really have no other option than to “march on”. I mean, no matter what we face, no matter where we have been, no matter if we have fallen and made poor decisions, Jesus proves his faithfulness and makes us whole. This song reminds me that marching on proves that we are not quitting.

So this is the fight that Jesus told us to fight – “Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.” 1 Timothy 6:12

Terry