Key Verse: Verse 14 - “Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;”
Persistence pays! Now, it’s a costly investment, no question about it. But the rewards are so much greater than the cost.
A primary reason we are tempted to throw in the towel and give up is other people; you know, that 20% to 25% who believe it’s their call in life to discourage those who are attempting to accomplish something, those white-flag specialists who never run out of excuses as to why you and I should quit, and why all the hours, sweat, and tears are not worth it.
I am sure Anne Mansfield Sullivan had a host of folks telling her that the blind seven-year-old brat wasn’t worth it, but Anne persisted in spite of the temper tantrums, abuse, mealtime madness, and thankless parents. Anne kept after it and within two years the blind girl was able to read and write in Braille. She graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College (where Anne had “spelled” each lecture into her hand). Helen Keller, the once bratty, blind seven-year-old, devoted the rest of her life to aiding the deaf and the blind – all because of the persistence of Anne Sullivan, who would not listen to critics but persistently kept after it.
I recently read about a couple of men who were working alongside inventor, Thomas Edison. Weary to the point of exasperation, one man sighed, “What a waste. We have tried over seven hundred experiments and none of them worked. We are not a bit better off than when we started.” With an optimistic twinkle in his eye, Edison quipped, “Oh, yes, we are! We know seven hundred things that won’t work.” If necessity is the mother of invention, then persistence has to be the father.
Ephesians 6:13-14, “Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand, therefore....” Be persistent!
What to do:
✞ Don’t quit – be faithful.
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