We’ve all heard the old adage, “Slow and steady wins the race.” This truth is the theme of the old fable about the tortoise and the hare. If you are like me, you first read about the tortoise beating the rabbit when you were in grade school. Back then that was just a story about running a race with a rabbit or a turtle. Today this story could be used to measure a person’s maturity. The person who is able to start a task and stay with it is more mature than one who starts and quits, starts and quits and never accomplishes anything.
Six or more years ago, the tech guys at Southwest church started posting our sermons on line once a week. At first there was one sermon on the internet. It was soon two, then three. Before I knew it there were hundreds of Southwest sermons online. I sat down a few weeks ago and decided to pull down those sermons to my computer and save them for posterity.
The task was so daunting that I quit and haven’t gone back to it yet. It was certainly harder to put the sermons online than it is to pull them down, but the sermons were posted because slow and steady wins the race. They have not been saved to my computer because big tasks are hard to complete.
3,000 years ago, Solomon told us this when he said “I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned.” (Ecc 9:11).
Admittedly Solomon says that “Time and chance happen to all,” but I will add that sometimes it is because some people have the power to stick to the task. Some people know that “Slow and steady wins the race.”
Lonnie Davis
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