A Stumbling Stake

"Staying with it--that's what God requires. Stay with it to the end. You won't be sorry, and you'll be saved. All during this time, the good news--the Message of the kingdom--will be preached all over the world, a witness staked out in every country. And then the end will come."

stay with it. i have the perserverance of ADHD in a candy shop fun house. i get excited about an idea, a thought, a vision just long enough to begin it. and then i get distracted, then disappointed in myself & the outcome. but God calls us to unyielding faith. "staked" out in the ground. i love that picture. i can just see Jesus, holding me in place on the ground, my toes pointing, and then lifting a huge rubber mallet and banging me deep in the ground. my legs and arms are smashed up against the dirt and i can't run or be distracted anymore. all i can do is stand there and be a beacon for him. Christ said that he would be a stumbling block to the wicked. what is it about a stake in the ground that attracts feet? i could pick anywhere on God's green earth to step, and i think we always trip on any stake (like a tent stake). i hope that as Christ secures me in his word that i will be a stumbling stake for others. that they can't help but trip over me...and it will make them consider "who put him there...and why?"