Sometimes faith feels joyful and energizing, and other times it feels quieter, steadier, and more like simply continuing to trust day by day.
Do you think perseverance is an underrated part of faith?
EV, I love you, so I’m gonna spare you any details of my life in Satan’s workshop, but let me leave this here for you: 1 Corinthians 9:24.
Underrated? No, undesirable yes. Perseverance in any situation implies work, effort, and a lack of ease. But these same things develop more strength than an easy path.
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The daily walk of faith with Christ is an endurance race on a difficult, narrow track. If that isn’t our ongoing experience, we need to think things through scripturally.
- “Run with endurance the race that lies before us, keeping our eyes on Jesus” (Hebrews 12:1-2).
- “Run in such a way to win the prize” (1 Corinthians 9:24).
- “Endurance produces proven character” (Romans 5:4).
- “Make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness, godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love” (2 Peter 1:5-7).
- “Narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life, and few find it” (Matthew 7:14).
Based on New Testament Greek, the believer’s “difficult” road has been likened to a narrow gorge between rocks. Our daily walk of faith will bring pressures that will test our allegiance to Christ. The faithful will “win the prize.”
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