Boots On The Ground
Do you realize that your perseverance is not about what you accomplish?
Seventh-day sunset.
During wartime, especially in unfamiliar territory, the infantry would suit up towards the war trenches.
Soldiers’ boots would be worn for tactical advantage in rough terrain, providing protection, warmth, and good footing among rocky, uncharted grounds.
These brave men and women would make their mark in the land left behind them with marching orders from high command.
Historic monuments would be made for the visionaries, for the first men to reach a newly claimed land.
Through torrential rains, muddy waters, and finally the brutal dry heat that would come, making boot prints in the ground where the armies would tread.
These prints would be a guiding support for the next generation to follow.
Sometimes they didn’t know to what advantage they would move the war front forward, but they knew their job would be important for others to see.
And the stories they would leave of bravery, courageousness, and even frightening encounters with the unseen in their dreams.
When you are carrying a vision or dream that is heavy on your spirit, and something unexpected happens where you cannot complete the current task, you may feel that you cannot fulfill the original intent.
Worry, fear, and eventually discouragement may be the only friends you feel you have.
But when we take in hindsight, approaching the visions, motives, and thoughts we had to begin with, if we truly believe that all things work together for those who trust Him, we cannot claim what accomplishments or misachievements are ours. In the hands of the Maker, we believe.
So we must tell our own story to sons and daughters of influence who look at our own boot prints on the ground. It may not be us to complete, but it may be them to pick up and carry the torch to their generation.