Week 13 👏🏼 || 100MileMonday

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Here we are! Just 3 more days left in this 2024 Spring100 Challenge. This is what you need to know:

👉🏼 The final day to grab Spring100 miles is Thursday, June 20th, 11:59 pm!

👉🏼 There will be 1 more 100MileMonday post next week(June 24th!) For this post, we will share all the fun “finish-line” photos. I would love for this to be the MOST exciting post yet! With that being said, even if you’ve met your 100-mile goal would you grab one final 2024 Spring100 walk/run and snap a selfie to be shared?💯📸 I would love to see photos from as many participants as possible in this final post!

👉🏼 The Deadline for ordering your 2024 Spring100 Shirt is Friday, June 28th! Your order must be placed on or before this date. CLICK HERE for shirt ordering details!

Spring100 Featured Photographer: Clara H.

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Spring100 Devotional

With Victories Come Temptation – So Guard Your Heart!

Mr Wesley Strackbein || FINAL 2024 Devotional – Week 13

When we achieve long-fought for milestones in life, it’s a time to gratefully rejoice. Yet it’s also a time to guard our hearts from evil.

With victories come great temptations to sin, with pride being the chief offender. Big accomplishments tend to puff us up. Whether we voice it outwardly or not, our hearts are prone to arrogantly think, “Look at what I’ve done!”

Dear friends, all that we have—including every earthly victory—is a gift of God (James 1:17).

“And what do you have that you did not receive?” asked the Apostle Paul, “Now if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?” (1 Cor. 4:7).

Despite this obvious truth, history is littered with the legacies of men who were empowered by God to achieve great feats, only to crash and burn when they responded with senseless pride.

Take King Uzziah, for example. Reading the record of Judah’s kings, we learn:

And God helped [Uzziah] against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims. . . . And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong. But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.” (2 Chron. 26:7, 15b-16)

After God made him strong, Uzziah flaunted authority that did not belong to him by acting the part of a priest. God’s response was swift, as he smote the king with leprosy, bringing his reign to an abrupt end(2 Chron. 26:20-22).

Complacency is another great temptation we must guard against, following earthly success.

David famously slew Goliath of Gath to defend God’s honor (1 Sam. 17:32-58), among many other exploits. But then he grew complacent. “[A]t the time when kings go out to battle . . . David remained at Jerusalem” (2 Sam. 11:1). In his dallying, he committed adultery with Bathsheba and then spiraled into more heinous sin which God sorely judged (2 Sam. 11-12).

When victories come, we must not rest on our laurels, as David did, invoking God’s wrath. Nor should we take pride in them, as was Uzziah’s foolish downfall.

Instead, we must humbly acknowledge to God that “all things come from You, and of Your own we have given You” (1 Chron. 29:14)—even as we continue to “press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” (Phil. 3:14).

We must “lay aside . . . the sin which so easily ensnares us” and finish strong (Heb. 12:2).

Rather than faltering after a notable milestone, may our witness be that of Paul’s:

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing (2 Tim. 4:7-8).

QUESTION! Did you find this challenge easier or harder than expected? What were some hurdles you had to overcome or are overcoming to complete your 100 miles?

Don’t forget! These posts are made possible by YOU!! Your photo submissions and comments make these posts extremely fun and my job of putting them together super easy. Thank you! So with that being said, don’t leave without commenting, and remember to send in your Spring100 walking/running photos for a chance to be featured in next week’s post. Thank you!

“The Mathews family has all passed 100 miles! Two of us grabbed the last miles on a special (and humid!) Fathers Day walk! Weve enjoyed walking many miles together once again this spring!” 🙌🏻💯🎉 CONGRATULATIONS!!!

“I finished my 100 this morning with my Dad on Fathers Day!” KT Coy ♥️🎉💯 WAY TO GO!!!

“We had a lovely Fathers Day hike up our mountain with grandparents! So thankful for loving fathers!!🥰” Baker Family — “Me and my son Jonathan on Fathers Day evening!” Thomas G.

“We were not able to be with either of our dads in person today (video calls are a blessing!), but to walk side by side with the father of my kiddos, through all of the delights and challenges of parenthood, is a gift beyond words! How I love this amazing guy! 🥰We did a slow mile tonight, hobbling a bit, after he conquered over 7 miles yesterday in hopes of finishing on time. 😆” Kathryn S. 👏🏼🙌🏻

“So thankful for our dad! The gift of a father is truly something wonderful!🫶🏼🥰
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. Jeremiah 17:7-8″ Hicks Family ♥️

“My aunt and sister helped me cross the finish line! 😊💯” Amanda S. 👏🏼💯🥳 CONGRATULATIONS!!

“Emmett has completed his 100 miles! Possibly the first horse to do the Spring100 Challenge. We shaped a yummy 100 to celebrate crossing the finish line!” Elizabeth W. 🎉💯😁 WELL DONE! — Emmi grabbing week 13 miles with her dad!!🧡

“This is my first year walking 200 miles for Spring100! My family agreed to walk an extra lap with me so I could make it to 200. It was a beautiful night to walk and enjoy the sunset!” Macy C. 🙋🏼‍♀️🙌🏻💯🎉 WAY TO GO!!!\

“Yay got our 100 miles! 👏🏼” L. Stutzman family — “Got my last mile in the airport with my amazing nephew. 💯 miles down!” Susanna Z. 🥳💯🙌🏻 CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!

“Abigail has completed Spring 100!” 💐💯🙌🏻 SO EXCITING!!! Way to go!!

“Praise the Lord, 100 miles! Oh rejoice in the Lord- He makes no mistakes! He knoweth the end Of each path that I take!🙏” Naomi P. 🙏🏼👏🏼💯 Well done, Naoimi!! Amen. 🧡

“Finished my 100 miles! I walked the last one with my moral support team on video call!” Anna W. 🎉💯🙌🏻 YAY!! Way to go!!!!!

“Enjoyed a walk with visiting relatives! Awesome views!” Rachel W. 👌🏻

“I didnt think Id actually make it, but with the Lords help, I hit 100 miles right before I leave for camp.” Lilly W. 💯🥳 Great job, Lilly!!!

“Anniversary hike!!!” Kelly M. ♥️🥾 Happy Anniversary!

“Going for a sunny evening walk with Jenna in our neighborhood” – Faith L.

“A beautiful evening walk. 😆” Halbach Family

“New York City is a great place to get a lot of miles in one day!” Sheryl H. 💯

“I was able to finish Spring 100 in Mexico on a missions trip, throwing rocks off the runway and clearing mesquite trees from around the airstrip.” Arlen P. 👏🏼💯 Way to go!! — “Finished my miles at one of my favorite places with one of my favorite people 🥰” Josephine H.💯🎉 CONGRATULATIONS!!

“Passing the 100 mile mark on a walk with my sisters. :)” Alyssa P. ♥️🎉💯 CONGRATULATIONS!!!

“Hiking The Ledges Trail with sisters and friends.” Sarah P.

“Grabbing some miles with my sweet husband and our baby to be born in September, in the fields of the east of France !” Marie & Samuel B 🧡👶🏻 Aw, congratulations on the new little blessing!!

“Reached 100 miles this week!! :)” Caroline F. 🙌🏻🎉💯 WAY TO GO!!!!! — “Becca and I are a little behind but determined to finish!” Lucy W. 🙏🏼 YOU GOT THIS!!!!

“One of our favorite places to walk we Haab girls took a lovely walk to the bridge where my parents got engaged on their anniversary this week! 😊♥” Haab girls

“Today we walked 2 miles in support of Type 1 Diabetes. My daughter Ava was diagnosed almost 2 years ago.” Alison N.

“I walked my 100th mile earlier this week and then celebrated with my 8-year-old, Aiden, with slushy floats after he got to mile 100 yesterday. He also completed his 100 reading lessons book last week! The rest of the family will finish their miles next week!” Amber N. 💯🙌🏻🥳 CONGRATULATIONS!!!

“5 year old Caroline standing on the 100 mile mark. She wanted to finish her last 3.84 miles in one shot.” Joyce M. ♥️💯🎉 WAY TO GO!!!! — “Lydia and I crossed the 100 mile finish line while daddy played disc golf!” Kristin T. 😁🎉💯 LOVE IT!! CONGRATULATIONS!

“Getting in some Minnesota miles!” Gabe & Sara C. 💯🙌🏻

“A very excited 3-year-old who just walked his 100th mile (after 3 previous springs riding 300 miles in the stroller)! He cant wait to get his very own BLUE tshirt! 😃” 🎉🙌🏻💯 CONGRATULATIONS!!! — “Extra miles with my brother, Levi, because sibling walks are the absolute best!! 🥰 “Grace F.

“Finished even though I was behind!” Darrin Bartel 🥳💯🙌🏻 WAY TO GO!!!!!!!!

“Theres nothing better than a Spring100 walk with two best friends!😊” Grace S. — “Walking my last two miles with my friend from Puerto Rico ❤” Phyllis C. 💯👏🏼🙌🏻 WELL DONE!!!

“Eliana was excited to finish her 100 miles recently! And we enjoyed this beautiful rainbow tonight! Praise God for His beautiful creation.” Hannah R. 💯🙌🏻🧡 SO WONDERFUL!!!!!!! Congratulations!!

“fun evening walk with sisters and girlfriends!!! 😁😎” Clara R.

“Trying to catch up.🏃💯” — “Got a faithful dedicated little friend this Spring 100.” Kathryn 🐶🙌🏻

Grabbed a Father’s Day walk with my parents and siblings! So truly thankful to the Lord for my Dad! He is constantly pointing me and my siblings to the Lord, exalting God’s Word as the ultimate unfailing truth, and reminding his children and others to live a life well pleasing to The Lord. By God’s grace, he has laid down his life for his family and this has blessed me beyond words!🧡 Keep up the great work everyone! We are just a few short days away from the end of this 2024 Spring100. DON’T QUIT!! 🙋🏼‍♀️💯

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“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 15:58