![]() And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. If you would like to be encouraged further in living a live a life of impact, grab a copy of Impact My Life: Biblical Mentoring Simplified. Why are we so, for lack of better words, dumb, that we have to suffer to gain perspective in this? God knows our path, he knows us before we are even born, he knows us better than we know ourselves.:: this post is a part of the 3.31 IMPACT series :: They say that it is only through suffering that we can gain all of these things. The last part of these verses are the hardest for me. All we have to do is sit back, work like heck, and trust that God is guiding the ship in the direction he needs it to go. Hope is knowing that no matter what God has my life and yours under control. Hope can be anything you want it to be as long as you believe in it. Hope believes that humanity will take the righteous actions. Hope is the ability to see the good in others when no one else does. Even in those situations where we KNOW beyond any doubt that it will never work out, having faith that it will work out. Hope! How would you describe hope? To me Hope is the ability to have faith that things will turn out great. We have the ability to grow into the person we are truly supposed to be. ![]() ![]() Character is something that can change over time in everyone. How is our character formed? By the situations, God has led us through and our actions during those times. The point here is that our character is what makes the difference. We have the option to allow our character to be one who goes around talking about them behind their backs, or we can bring it up to them and ask how we can fix the situation. the fact is that we don’t like our current situation. Maybe we gave him a reason not to be nice to us, maybe we didn’t. Ill bet that we have been in a situation where our boss was not a a nice guy. The way we act on those situations shows our true character. Our character is formed by the events that happen for us. I consider character to be how we act, and react to every situation that God places in our lives. If you don’t have perseverance and gave up at swing 99, you would have never found the true treasure. They use the analogy of a person who hits a rock 99 times and it never breaks, then he swings the 100 th time and the rock breaks open and is full of amazing beauty. I have been listening regularly to the podcast, “Born to Impact.” These guys are amazing and constantly talk about what it means to have perseverance. I think you get the point, life requires that we have perseverance, or grit. Faith requires perseverance, being an employee requires perseverance, being the leader requires perseverance, being a parent requires perseverance. Angela Duckworth would call it “Grit.” The ability to stick with something even when things do go as easily as expected. To me perseverance is when you don’t give up. What is perseverance? I grew up in the grange where they always prayed for perseverance. The way I take these verses are that it is only through suffering that we can learn perseverance, gain our true charter, and hope so big that we can’t help but be happy. How often when things start to get tough and we start to suffer do we turn to God and say, “What did I do to deserve this” or “I really tried to listen to you, but I feel that I didn’t get the point.” So often, we turn to God when times are tough to ask him for guidance and to take away our suffering. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. ![]() Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance perseverance, character and character, hope. ![]()
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