For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance… (2 Peter 1:6).

Some days are just hard.  You will fail; your self-control will falter.  Attacks will come, from within and without, that simply seem too much for you.  You will feel that, at best, you are spiritually stagnant, that you will never be the person you know God has called you to be.

Hold on.

Tight.

This is when God calls you to persevere.  That is your part of the equation.  God supplies the strength—you must supply the will.  Are you praying for a deeper relationship with God, but not seeing any results?

Persevere.  Press on.

Are you struggling with sin or insecurity or loneliness, and you feel as if things will never change?

Persevere.  Wrestle it until you pin it to the ground.

Are you interceding for someone you love, but you feel like your prayers are powerless?

Persevere.  Fight on.  Stand in the gap for your beloved, even as Christ has stood for you.

Fight though you are tired.  Fight though you are discouraged.  Fight though you see no results in this world.  Fight through the sadness and pain and brokenness and fear and rejection and disappointment and loss and grief.

Fight until he gives you the victory.

Beloved, I don’t know what challenge you face today, but I know that you are called to persevere.  And I know something else—if it’s a battle worth fighting, then it’s a battle worth winning.

So go win.