PERSEVERANCE-ENDURANCE
It is the Holy Spirit who is
causing you to persevere. In those
times when you are lazy and have no enthusiasm for any Spiritual Discipline, or
when you haven’t practiced a particular Discipline as you habitually do, it is
the Holy Spirit who prompts you to pick it up in spite of your feelings. Left to yourself you would have forsaken
these means of sustaining grace long ago, but the Holy Spirit preserves you by
granting to you the grace to persevere in them.
Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, 1991, p. 238,
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God uses the encouragement
of the Scriptures, the hope of our ultimate salvation in glory, and the trials
that He either sends or allows to produce endurance and perseverance.
Jerry Bridges
The Practice of Godliness, NavPress, 1996, p. 179. Used by
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In His infinite wisdom, God allows
trials in order to develop perseverance in us and to cause us to fix our hopes
on the glory that is yet to be revealed…
Our faith and perseverance can grow only under the pain of trial.
Jerry Bridges
The Practice of Godliness, NavPress, 1996, p. 112. Used by
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