The secret to plodding is patience. “I’m struck by how often the life of faith is described as a ‘walk,’” writes pastor Luke Simmons. “It’s steady plodding, one step at a time. And sometimes the win for the day is just that you kept walking.”5 It’s a point echoed by my friend Daniel Darling. In writing about the story of Noah, he observed, “We look at the big boat, but the way Noah trusted God was by picking up his hammer every morning and hammering in another nail.”6
