People
who do aerobics and other sports learn the importance of building endurance, or
“no pain, no gain”. Many wonderful Christians have had to endure physical and
perhaps emotional pain for years. Yet they tell you that God gives them strength
to endure. It's true, we're not all created equal, and life can be more
complicated for some than others.
Endurance may include pressing on
toward godly goals even when failure seems eminent. One of the hard sayings of
Jesus was to "take up your cross and follow me." Pressing onward could
mean working through difficult problems instead of giving up or denying they
exist.
Jesus
would not advocate something so important without empowering you to endure. Listen
to his words. "If anyone would come after me, he must take up his cross
and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever
loses his life for me shall find it." Reconstructing your values demands
faith and trust in the presence and power of Christ in you.
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