“By perseverance the snail reached the ark” (C.H. Spurgeon).

Perseverance is the key. Sometimes you need to be like the snail. Not the fastest, not the brightest, but always waking up every morning and moving a little at a time toward your destination.

The key isn’t being the best ever. It’s showing up every day and not giving up, no matter how slow the pace or how far away the goal appears.

As ol’ Winston Churchill once said, “Nevah give up. Nevah evah give up.”

I like that.

God doesn’t choose the best looking or the most likely to succeed. He doesn’t pick the best and the brightest.

He chooses the least likely so that He can get the credit and we get the benefit of seeing God work in us and through us. All God asks of us is that we’re committed and surrendered and available. We just pray up and show up with expectation. God does the rest.

Lord, help us be like those snails who persevered all the way until they were safely inside the ark. Help us remember that it’s not by our might or by our power or even by our perseverance but it’s by Your own strength that we will finally reach home at least. Amen.