Self-Respect Missing? Check Your Lifestyle - Part 2

Endurance is a powerful force designed by God to sustain life and help us stay focused on the purpose God sets before us to accept and carry out. Endurance serves as a pathway for discovering contentment and satisfaction with what we have rather than longing for what lies just ahead or behind us. Endurance equates to faithfulness.

In John 15:12-14 Jesus commands believers to “Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command.” Considering the degree of endurance required for this task, it is difficult but not impossible.

It is challenging to rearrange a lifestyle that currently does not fit. Thinking and feeling patterns are slow to conform. However, Jesus sends the Holy Spirit to help us make transitions and build endurance. It doesn’t happen overnight, but for all who determine to endure, God is faithful to provide help and encouragement.