{"id":87299,"date":"2025-05-29T13:03:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T18:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=87299"},"modified":"2025-05-29T13:03:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T18:03:47","slug":"why-perseverance-is-so-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/why-perseverance-is-so-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Perseverance Is so Important"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p>While searching for inspirational YouTube videos, I was impressed by how many of them encourage viewers to persevere despite major obstacles, failures, and disappointments.<\/p>\n<p>Perseverance means persistence, steadfastness, endurance, holding on, standing firm, tenacity, stick-to-it-iveness, keeping on keeping on, stamina, grit, hoeing your row to the end, staying the course, crossing the finish line.\u00a0What is the opposite of perseverance? Surrender, caving in, calling it quits, walking out, throwing in the towel, giving up, bailing out.<\/p>\n<p>Perseverance is one of the hardest things we can ever do, but it is essential in so many areas of life &#8211; marriage, work, sports, relationships, overcoming addictions &#8211; and most importantly, living the Christian life.<\/p>\n<h2>Why Christians Must Persevere<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>We are striving for a future, invisible reward (Hebrews 11:1-2, 13-16, 24-26).<\/li>\n<li>Satan will do all he can to discourage us, distract us, and defeat us.<\/li>\n<li>The reward we seek is promised to those who stay true to the end (Matthew 24:12-13; Hebrews 3:6, 14; II Timothy 4:6-8).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three Values of Perseverance<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It enables us to push through the hard times (II Thessalonians 1:4; Romans 12:11-12).<\/li>\n<li>It enables us to bear the fruit God desires in us (Luke 8:15; Galatians 6:9; Romans 2:6-7).<\/li>\n<li>It gives us the power to finish strong (Hebrews 12:1).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How We Endure<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We keep our eyes on Jesus, who endured far more than we (Hebrews 12:1-3).<\/li>\n<li>We aim for the reward (Hebrews 10:23, 32-39; James 1:12; II Timothy 2:12).<\/li>\n<li>We diligently cultivate the qualities that enable us to attain &#8220;<em>entrance into the eternal kingdom<\/em>&#8221; (II Peter 1:5-11).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What We Must Know<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>&#8230;we exult in hope of the glory of God. And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, <strong>knowing that<\/strong> tribulation brings about perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope&#8230;<\/em>&#8221; (Romans 5:2-4).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, <strong>knowing that<\/strong>\u00a0the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing<\/em>&#8221; (James 1:2-4).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, <strong>knowing that<\/strong>\u00a0your toil is not in vain in the Lord<\/em>&#8221; (I Corinthians 58:58).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While searching for inspirational YouTube videos, I was impressed by how many of them encourage viewers to persevere despite major obstacles, failures, and disappointments. Perseverance means persistence, steadfastness, endurance, holding on, standing firm, tenacity, stick-to-it-iveness, keeping on keeping on, stamina, grit, hoeing your row to the end, staying the course, crossing the finish line.\u00a0What is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[1282],"class_list":["post-87299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-perseverance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28271,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/perfection-or-perseverance\/","url_meta":{"origin":87299,"position":0},"title":"Perfection or Perseverance?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"December 5, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"by Ken Green \"Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. 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Marriages and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":58685,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/perseverance-of-the-saints-and-ii-peter-217\/","url_meta":{"origin":87299,"position":3},"title":"Perseverance of the Saints and II Peter 2:17","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"February 4, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"by Bryan Sharp In II Peter 2:1, Peter warns of false teachers from within the Church \"who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.\" In II Peter 2:17 Peter says these same people \"are waterless springs and mists driven\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24727,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/can-psalms-3728-be-used-to-prove-the-perseverance-of-the-saints\/","url_meta":{"origin":87299,"position":4},"title":"Can Psalms 37:28 be used to prove the perseverance of the saints?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"August 15, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Does Psalms 37:28 teach perseverance of the saints and once saved, always saved? 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