Endurance

The Lord has been speaking to me the word Endurance lately.  Perhaps it is the times we live in or the trials we Believers now face in our world today, but I believe God wants to encourage us to be strong in Him and to hold steadfast to His promises.  He wants for us the crowns of glory he has set up for each one of us!  Heb. 6:11-12  But we do (strongly and earnestly) desire for each of you to show the same diligence and sincerity (all the way through) in realizing and enjoying the full assurance and development of your hope until the end.  In order that you may not grow disinterested and become spiritual sluggards, but imitators, behaving as do those who through faith (by the leaning of the entire personality on God in Christ in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom and goodness) and by practice of patient endurance and waiting are NOW inheriting the promises.

As I draw closer to God through prayer and the reading of His Word, I find that it is far easier for me to trust and have confidence in His power, wisdom and goodness.  Thereby making it easier to endure expectantly.  As I look back over my walk with Christ, I am awestruck by the way my thinking has changed!  I was one who constantly believed that I had to be in control.  I spent most of my life, even my Christian life, revering myself.  I had placed myself  "on the throne."  I am so grateful that God has brought me to the end of myself and allowed me to enter in to the assurance I now have in "Him, who sits on the throne, and unto the Lamb"  to Him be all the power and glory forever!