OK, this is not real; someone put a helmet on a mouse with photo shop. If it were real though, just imagine the guts of that mouse. The daring, the chutzpa, the audacity!!! Even without the mouse, there would be an encouraging message here; NEVER GIVE UP!!!! How many people have never succeeded BECAUSE THEY GAVE UP? Naturally, I thought of the Apostle Paul; a man who traveled over 10,000 miles on foot for the sake of spreading the GOOD NEWS OF CHRIST!!!
2 Corinthians, Chapter 11
16 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little. 17 That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting. 18 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast. 19 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise. 20 For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face. 21 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also. 22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I. 23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often. 24 Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep. 26 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers; 27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
28 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation? 30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness. 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forevermore, knows that I don’t lie.
28 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation? 30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness. 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forevermore, knows that I don’t lie.
A small man, apparently weak of frame and with poor eyesight, this one man helped change the world...for the better!!! But, don't make the mistake of thinking he had an easy time of it; just reading his recital above would be daunting for even the strongest of men. Yet, it spite of all the hardships, he managed to write a major portion of the New Testament!!! Frankly, I stand in awe of the man's faith and commitment. Makes me want to go out and buy a football helmet... TODAY!!!