Destiny-driven Endurance

We all make goals to help motivate us to train hard. We want to be faster, smarter, stronger. We want to break records, win championships, achieve awards. All good goals. But all of them are short-term goals.

Too often, we achieve our goals, only to feel unsatisfied—maybe not in that moment of triumph, but eventually the feeling wears off. Then, we again make new (short-term) goals in hopes of being satisfied once more…and the cycle continues. Eventually, it’s hard to be motived to endure, and endure well, unless we have an ultimate goal to strive for.

RZIM speaker Alycia Wood shared from 2nd Thessalonians 1:1-4 and unpacked how the early Christians were facing trials and persecution and suffering—and yet they had extraordinary endurance because they had the ultimate goal in mind, enabling them to remain “faithful” and “steadfast.”

This ultimate goal is life with God through the person, works, and words of Jesus Christ. As disciple Peter reminds us, we have an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for us. And though we have seen not Jesus, we love him. Though we do not see Jesus how, we believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of our faith, the salvation of our souls.” (1st Peter 1)