Postponement. The ability to forego something we would like to have or attain while accepting that we must endure, in order to receive the thing we want. Many believe that the ability to accept postponement is a landmark on the road to maturity. The concept is the anti-thesis of instant gratification. Dying before receiving the promise and comprehending that the promised City awaits us, if we enter and finish the race.

A promised City awaits. Enter and finish the race!

Hebrews 11:12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. Hebrews 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Hebrews 11:14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. Hebrews 11:15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. Hebrews 11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.