You can endure

You have almost made it to the end of the 1-92 challenge.  For those who finished I know you have been blessed because God's word never returns void.  I pray that you will continue with me by starting again on January 1 and go through God's word again.  I will be announcing a new challenge later in January that will take us right up to Easter weekend, but I want to encourage you to take your daily Bible and go back to the first page with me on January 1st.  This was the verse that spoke to me today.
 
Revelation 14:12 This calls for patient endurance on the part of the saints who obey God’s commandments and remain faithful to Jesus.

So many people think that the Christian life is easy, soft, and simple, but we walk on a narrow and difficult road.  Loving your enemy is not easy, forgiving the unforgivable seems impossible, accepting those who persecute us is unimaginable.  But it is what we are called to do.  The Christian life calls for patient endurance.  While our eternal transformation was immediate at our conversion, our external earthly transformation is still a work in progress.  God is still working on each of us and we are learning more each day about who we are in Christ.  Even the Apostle Paul said he had not yet attained perfection.

Philippians 3:12   Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.  13 Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,  14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

So wherever you are and whatever you are doing continue to be faithful and press on with patient endurance.  You can do this!  Even when you think you can't go any further stay faithful and God will see you through.