Perseverance

If you are anything like me you have several unfinished tasks. I have many projects that I have started but have not finished for whatever reasons. I tend to get frustrated in the process of completing my projects and just stop. I eventually restart some projects while others I just think back on them with good intentions. My word today to all of you and myself is Persevere. We must learn to persevere through times of discontent and storms.


When I get frustrated, I tend to look down upon myself and my abilities as if I never had the talent to begin the project in the first place. I have to learn to become mentally stronger. I have to increase my endurance. I have to run my race, with respects to the project at hand, believing and knowing that I will cross the finish line.

Paul wrote to the Church at Corinth in 2 Corinthians 8:10-11 saying, I suggest that you finish what you started a year ago for you were the first to propose this idea, … the first to begin doing something about it. Now you should carry this project through to completion just as enthusiastically as you begin it.

I am starting to truly understand that many of my blessings are placed right behind the completion of my tasks that God has assigned to me. God is waiting on me to bless me. He wants me to be happy in the biblical sense, not in the worldly sense. Blessed is a synonym for happy in the Bible. He wants to honor my persistence.

Matthew 7:7 – Keep on asking, and you will be given what you ask for. Keep on looking and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened.

Not only does frustration stop me at times from completing my tasks, but so does being trapped in a storm. Currently, I have been feeling just that way. At every turn I have had to battle the enemy just to stay mentally in the game. I feel like the enemy is aware that I am back in the thick of things. I am working to complete my tasks like never before. The enemy senses how I feel and is trying to destroy my hope. I feel like my blessing is just a completed task away. I have never really felt like this before. I have searched all my life for the feeling that I have right now in Christ. I am still frustrated by the attacks. However, I am still motivated. Not only am I motivated, I am excited. I don’t know for how long this feeling will last, but that is how I feel right now.

James 1:2-4 – Dear brothers and sisters, whenever trouble comes your way, let it be an opportunity for joy. For when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, so when your endurance is fully developed, you will be strong in character and ready for anything.

I invite you to join me in this quest to be ready for anything, including our storms. It’s a new day, the sun is on the horizon. Make the most of it.

God Bless You.