“Be still, and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10
Tenacity is more than endurance, it is endurance combined with the absolute certainty that what we are looking for is going to transpire. Tenacity is more than hanging on, which may be but the weakness of being too afraid to fall off. Tenacity is the supreme effort of a man refusing to believe that his hero is going to be conquered. The greatest fear a man has is not that he will be damned, but that Jesus Christ will be worsted, that the things He stood for – love and justice and forgiveness and kindness among men – will not win out in the end; the things He stands for look like will-o’-the-wisps. Then comes the call to spiritual tenacity, not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately on the certainty that God is not going to be worsted.
If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means that they are being purified. There is nothing noble the human mind has ever hoped for or dreamed of that will not be fulfilled. One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God. “Because thou hast kept the word of my patience.”
Remain spiritually tenacious.
God has never given up on us. Regardless of how far we fall from grace, God will never give up on us. That is God’s promise and it has always been kept.
The problem occurs when we give up on God. When the road is too rough; or our hearts broken to bits; or our lives shortened by a fatal disease; it is then that we tend to give up on God. Yet throughout history, we know that victory is there for those who never give up on God.
Even when the Savior of the world, the Son of God, the Word who created us; was killed in the most shameful way possible; even that symbol of death and shame became the symbol of salvation, resurrection and victory for each of us. Just think of the consequences if Jesus had given up on God!
But he did not give up. And if we refuse to give up, regardless of the circumstances, then God will turn even the greatest tragedy into redemption, salvation and victory.
Never, never. never, never quit.
Tenaciously yours,
Z gardener
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