Exhaustion can lead to moments of defeat. You’ve lost your strength to endure, you’ve lost your motivation to try, and you’re too weak to be your best.

Love endures all things. A skewed perception of enduring is hunkering down in a crouched position until the storm passes through, but endurance is much more. Under pressure, endurance digs into taps into your source, remembering your higher purpose. Instead of hiding, enduring is expanding and growing through the experience, fixing your eyes on the enthusiastic enjoyment that lies ahead.

How does this look from a practical standpoint? Choosing love is always a decision and involves a pivot from your current thoughts and feelings.

Patience + Courage = Endurance

Endurance is growing and expanding under pressure and patience and courage are essential ingredients.

Patience is the passive accepting side.

It’s not putting up with everything, but rather the power to see some joy, some gladness, some light, and some meaning amid a challenge in life.

Courage is the active aggressive side

It’s the inner power to face the situation, move past resistors and be truthful with love and mercy. Courage refuses to pretend or dilute.

Without courage - patience turns into passivity

Without patience - courage becomes desperate and forceful

Are those around you experiencing you as one who endures?

When you’re ready to solve a relationship challenge, it always starts with confronting yourself first. Solving the endurance question for yourself is loving and courageous and will most definitely affect all of your relationships.

How will you abide under a trial? Without intention or even noticing, we can trip and fall into a habit of complaining. This is an indicator that we are ready to be loved by God, tap into that source, and develop new habits and skills.

Complaining is a reactive response to feeling tired or defeated. Most people who complain have no conscious thought or intention behind it. But maybe you’ve been expressing dissatisfaction or annoyance about something...if so it comes out as protesting, accusing, disapproving, nit-picking, and sometimes just plain sighing.

The proactive approach when you feel tired is to start praising, delighting, admiring those around you, and choosing joy. Do all things without complaining or bickering with each other (Phil 2:4). We believe it’s a quick pivot for those who choose to endure with patience and courage!

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