Power to Endure Like Jesus – Beloved Girls – April 11, 2025
READ: “Seeking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our religion, who for the enjoyment set earlier than him endured the cross, despising the disgrace, and is seated on the proper hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:2 ESV)
TODAY’S ENCOURAGEMENT: WWJD has turn out to be a preferred saying. What would Jesus do? We frequently ask this query when coping with the world round us; the world exterior of us. We would ask ourselves, what would Jesus do if He noticed the way in which we’re destroying his planet?
Endurance has nothing to do with the exterior and all the things to do with our internal thought life and the state of our coronary heart (Proverbs 4:23). What would Jesus do when in a trial? He endured, when many people would flee. Jesus knew the enjoyment that was to come back. Jesus knew who held His world – God, the Father. Jesus knew whom He was enduring for – you and me. Jesus had each proper to really feel deserted however He endured. The following time we’re underneath strain, we are able to remind ourselves of what Jesus did – He endured. We additionally know the enjoyment that’s to come back, we all know the founder and perfecter, we all know who to look to – our Lord and Savior, Jesus. Let’s flip this query inward, what would Jesus do when He feels forsaken/alone/betrayed? What we’ll discover once we look by means of the Scriptures is that by means of all of it, He endured.
PRAY: Father, I pray that You’ll remind me throughout emotionally making an attempt occasions that You’re the perfecter of my religion. Remind me that I can wait on You as I persevere. Strengthen me as I am going by means of every season of life and I thank You that I’ll GROW by means of this season as you carry me by means of to the opposite facet. I ask that You’ll train me tips on how to endure as Jesus endured – with nice expectation of what’s to come back. In Jesus title I pray, amen.
REFLECT: Contemplating the present season of life you’re in, how could you replicate the character of Christ and endure?
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