Faith is Tenacious

I cannot hear the word "tenacious"  without thinking of the band Tenacious D.  And I thought of Tenacious D while watching my daughter play at the park.  They could have provided the perfect underscore as she was attempting to balance on the middle junction of a toy where three arms from separate rocking horses joined together.  The whole thing was wiggling atop giant springs and my sweet four year old had just witnessed much bigger kids falling off that middle junction as it jolted every which way.  Yet there she was; crawling onto it and keeping fairly good balance.  When her older, and constantly competitive, brother told her she was too little and would fall off she calmly looked him in the eyes and thrust her arms out from her sides to keep her balance.  It was a moment of pride for me when I realized that my adorable miss thing had some major tenacity.  
Our faith should be this way.  It should have the courage to crawl up on top of that obstacle no matter how it wiggles or tries to throw us off.  Faith should have the tenacity to simply stick out its arms for balance when the world says "you can't." Our faith follows the Lord.  The King.  The Most High.  Joshua and Caleb had this type of faith to say "I don't care what the odds look like.  God said to go into the land so let's go!"  
So how 'bout it?  Are you going to camp out in the wilderness in fear or go into the land God has set for you?  Are you going to listen to the naysayers or stick your hands out for balance when life tries to throw you?  
My prayer today is for a tenacious faith to become the legacy I leave and the legacy of my family to come.

2 Timothy 1:5
"I am calling up memories of your sincere and unqualified faith (the leaning of your entire personality on God in Christ in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness), [a Faith] that first lived permanently in [the heart of] your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am [fully] persuaded, [dwells] in you also."

Check HERE to catch the story of Joshua and Caleb.

PS A great book for this type of topic is "For the Love" by Jen Hatmaker