Perseverance

Perseverance

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” — Thomas Edison

We started the year with the word perspective. We did well keeping our perspective, holding on, and not giving up. Now, as we stand at the doorstep of 2025, it’s a call to persevere.

Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

Let each of us say, in St. Paul’s words: “I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”

Being mindful that we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Not only that, but we should rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, endurance produces character, and character produces hope.

Let us consider it pure joy whenever we face trials of many kinds because we know that the testing of our faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that we may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”

Pick up where you may have left off or stumbled during the course of the year, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, with confidence and commitment—because He will make everything new.

       Isaiah 40:31, Philippians 3:13-14, Hebrews 12:1, Galatians 6:9, Romans 5:3-4, James 1:2-4


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