“Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial.” (James 1:12a)
Perseverance means to continue to work at doing something despite difficulty or delay in being successful. The same God that delivered us aforetime, will deliver us today. He is faithful that promised. Once upon a time, there was a donkey. It was a stupid, stubborn old donkey and even the farmer who owned it didn’t like him. The farmer owned a large property and one day he heard in the distance the loud, distinctive “eye-ore, eye-ore” of the donkey. He found the animal at the bottom of an old abandoned well. Exasperated, the farmer rang his neighbors and asked them each to bring a shovel. He’d had enough of the stupid donkey, so he had decided to bury it in the well. All of his friends came over and together they started to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey protested loudly, braying with all of his might, but after about 10 minutes, he stopped. The farmers kept shoveling. After a while, someone decided to have a look into the well to see what had happened to the donkey. What he saw astonished him. Instead of being buried, the donkey would dodge the incoming dirt, standing on the ever-increasing mound. Now the mission changed and the farmers went from trying to bury the donkey to trying to save him, shoveling more and more dirt into the abandoned well until he jumped out of the top victorious. Upon his release, the farmers all dropped their shovels and applauded the old stubborn beast with a newfound admiration. No matter what the enemy puts in our way to prevent our victory we must be still and hear from God. Then, and only then, will we be able to use each obstacle as a stepping stone to victory. GiGi❤️
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