Need of Endurance

There's no space that His love can't reach

There's no place where we can't' find peace

There's no end to amazing grace

Take me in with Your arms spread wide

Take me in like an orphan child
Never let go, Never leave my side

I am, Holding on to You...

In the middle of the storm

I am holding on, I am 

Love like this, Oh my God to find

I am overwhelmed, With a joy divine

Love like this sets our hearts on fire

This is my resurrection song

This is my hallelujah come

This is why it's to You I run.1

He is holding on to you, through the middle of the storm, the disease, sickness, pain, tears, heartache, desires, and addictions... I Am is holding on to you. Let us exult, dance in our tribulations knowing that in our suffering we partake of His. Knowing also that suffering produces patience and patience produces endurance and endurance produces strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation.2 When patience has made its perfect work in us, we will know that we are perfect and complete, lacking nothing...when we have stood the test we will receive the crown of life.3 on earth as in heaven.

Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise: "For yet a little while, And He who is coming will come and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith; But if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him.” But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.4 

It is human nature to withdraw from God during trials, but we must be deligent to run to him, doing so we increase our endurance, and he promises to strengthen our confident hope, to fill us with peace and joy that only he can provide. This is a reward for our suffering, we will want to return to him for this that satisfies the soul, giving thanks to him. If when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God.5

So be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and long suffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

Jesus is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.6

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.7

I Am - Crowder