Stay in the Race
Max Lucado Daily Devotional
Max Lucado
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🗓️ 18 March 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is Max Lakato. Don't give up. In 1952, Florence Chadwick attempted to swim the ocean waters between Catalina Island and the California shore. Through foggy weather and choppy seas, after 15 hours, her muscles began to cramp and her resolve began to weaken. She begged to be taken out of the water. But her mother, riding in a boat alongside, urged her not to give up. |
| 0:23.0 | She kept trying, but grew exhausted. |
| 0:25.4 | AIDS lifted her out of the water. |
| 0:27.6 | As they paddled a few more minutes, the mist broke, and she discovered the shore was less than half a mile away. |
| 0:35.0 | She said, all I could see was the fog. |
| 0:40.1 | I think, if I could have seen the shore, |
| 0:47.1 | I would have made it. Friend, don't give up. The finish may be only strokes away. God may at this very moment be lifting his hand to signal Gabriel to grab the trumpet. The shore is closer than you |
| 0:53.6 | thought. Stay at it. Stay in the race. And shore is closer than you thought. |
| 0:55.0 | Stay at it. |
| 0:55.8 | Stay in the race. |
| 0:57.2 | And don't give up. |
| 0:59.4 | This is Max Lakato. |
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