Keep on Keepin’ On

by | Jun 10, 2025 | Articles, Mentors Corner

This life is full of the difficult.  Pain, stress, pressures, trials, tribulations, temptations, even persecutions, oppositions and rejection. A few things are true in such times of trouble: God delivers the circumstance. He does so with purpose and for our good. Man’s required response is endurance or perseverance. God provides promises to the man who perseveres, giving him hope in the midst of the circumstance. The Scripture is full of examples, responses, instruction and related promises.  Two of them: Romans 5:3-5: (3) “And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance (4) and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; (5) and hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.” James 1:2-4: (2) “Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials (3) because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. (4) Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” Perseverance or endurance is our role in the process.  It means to “stay under” or to bear patiently.  It implies a choice of remaining in or abandoning the God-purposed process in these two passages. God’s purpose in perseverance is to draw us to dependence on Him and to sanctify us in the process.  It requires faith, the faith that Jesus Christ will deliver us out or from the trouble. 1 Corinthians 10:13: “No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not...