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Persistence and Patience
Weekly Edition #49: December 31st, 2025
Verse I Like:
“Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!”
Weekly Dose
In closing out 2025, I have thought a lot about persistence and patience.
Patience is a difficult virtue to practice, especially in a world that equates movement with progress.
Waiting is often misunderstood as inaction. But waiting is not just passed time, but formative time.
Then, persistence is not simply continuing to move forward. It’s continuing toward the ideal when forward movement is unclear.
In short, it is holding fast to what is right when a resolution seems distant.
Both are subject to self-control and self-discipline.
Patience waits; Persistence endures.
Quotes I Like:
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
“A man on a thousand-mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.”
Mane Message
One of the greats of the Old Testament was King David, the man after God’s own heart.
He was anointed as a young man, but he was not made king immediately.
In fact, he wasn’t made king anywhere close to immediately.
It was many years later. And through David’s trials, it was certainly not smooth sailing. He was pursued relentlessly by King Saul.
The level of stress and anguish he must have felt is difficult to imagine. But through this grueling season in David’s life, he was not merely waiting, but preparing.
In his suffering, he was becoming the kind of man capable of truly shepherding God’s chosen people. This is not to minimize his suffering, but to ground it in meaning.
He suffered for something.
And through his poems, songs, and psalms, an astronomically high number of people have been moved—another likely unforeseen fruit that arose from David’s willingness to be patient and persist.
Patience in the waiting, and persistence in enduring while holding fast to the Lord. When opportunities arose for David to end his waiting by killing Saul, he refused.
He persisted in his principles and remained patient, trusting that God would honor the anointing in His time.
Be willing to be patient as if your patience is directly related to the intensity with which you believe.
Weekly Ponder
In our asking for virtues like patience, why shouldn’t we expect situations and circumstances that require or build patience?
What, short of death, could truly stop us if we refused to quit and continued to persevere?
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