Week 47 of 52
Perseverance
Faith that lasts is not faith that never bends, it is faith that does not let go.
Built on Hebrews 12:1-3. A great cloud of witnesses surrounds the runner, and the race is run by looking to Jesus, who endured the cross and despised the shame.
Scripture does not promise that faith removes hardship. It promises that faith holds through hardship, and it gives a long list of people who did exactly that: prophets who were sawn in two, a woman who kept gleaning in a field she did not own, a man who kept preaching after three shipwrecks. None of them are praised for feeling strong. They are praised for not quitting.
This week follows perseverance through the Bible's own vocabulary: running, waiting, enduring under a yoke, holding a confession fast to the end. Each day is a different picture of the same command, given to people who had every reason, humanly speaking, to stop.
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Seven days
Each day is its own devotional
Day 1
Run with Endurance
The race has weight to lay aside and a witness cloud watching.
Hebrews 12:1
Day 2
Looking to Jesus
Endurance keeps its eyes on someone, not on the pain.
Hebrews 12:2-3
Day 3
Job's Unyielding Grip
A man stripped of everything still would not curse God.
Job 13:15
Day 4
Patience Producing Character
Suffering has a stated order it works through.
Romans 5:3-4
Day 5
Not Growing Weary in Doing Good
The harvest comes to those who do not give up.
Galatians 6:9
Day 6
Paul's Last Fight
A man near execution measures his life by whether he finished.
2 Timothy 4:7
Day 7
Endure to the End
Christ names endurance itself as the mark of the saved.
Matthew 24:13