Endurance!

Colossians 1: 10 – 11

And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way:

bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance…

 

The word, “endurance”, only appears in the Bible 12 times.

Just because the word isn’t mentioned very much, shouldn’t dictate that its meaning is insignificant.

 

It’s also interesting to me, that the word, “endurance”, is only mentioned in the New Testament, and not the Old Testament.

I wonder if the word being used only in the NT, has anything to do with the need for “endurance”, as we head for the last days of the dispensation of grace?

 

Now that the weather is nicer, I hope to test my physical endurance sometime this week.

I hope to get my bicycle out of mouth balls, and actually use it.

 

Because of my hip problems over the last few years, I doubt I will have much physical endurance, seeing I’ve been away from physical activity for quite some time.

I guess the old adage, “no pain—no gain”, will somehow apply to me this week.

 

The reason so many believers have trouble with spiritual endurance, is that they’re out of practice.

Spiritual endurance comes, from being active in the daily spiritual grind.

 

Are you out of spiritual shape? How’s your spiritual endurance these days?

The test of our endurance, is when troubles come our way. That test, will actually show if we’re ready or not to endure.

 

What needs to change, for your endurance to be strengthened?

And since we’ve indentified the problem, what are you going to do today, to increase your spiritual endurance