Trust God for the long haul and leave the length of your trials totally in his hands, because that is perseverance!
Hi, I’m Joni Eareckson Tada, and with my disability or with the trials you face day after day, you could get worn down; you can even get worn out! What you and I need is perseverance. We need the resolve to keep going! But when you struggle through never-ending trials, perseverance can feel so elusive, like a carrot dangling way out ahead that you can hardly reach. You just can’t seem to get there, but you keep trusting God in one hard moment after the next. You keep doing that, again and again, and finally, what do you know? There you are, on the other side, having persevered that hard thing for a long, long time. James 1:3 says that “the testing of your faith produces perseverance.” And you don’t want to miss out on that! And so, trust God for the long haul and leave the length of your trials totally in God’s hands. And what do you know? You will be a persevering saint.
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