Endure—Keep Going

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What do you do to keep going when you feel like you cannot move forward? When hardships hit you, how do you find the strength to push through and to endure?

Life can be challenging and difficulties and hardships can arise. This broken world can stifle us and can be depressive. Troubles can leave us in a state of discouragement and paralysis and it can be hard to move ahead.

In the face of hardships, when we feel like we cannot go on, we can find the encouragement we need to endure in the word of God and in the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus, who endured all things so that we would be able to endure and to keep going.

The Apostle Paul wrote the church in Rome, saying, “For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.” (Romans 15:4, ESV).

God has given us the scriptures for our instruction, so that we can endure and be encouraged through God’s word—so we can have hope to endure and to keep going.

“May the God of endurance and encouragement enable us to live in harmony with one another [and endure], in accord with Christ Jesus, that together we may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (Romans 15:5-6, ESV).

In Christ alone, Robbie

A Collect For Endurance: “Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the Cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).

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