Endure

Revelation 14:12

Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus. 

Paul told Christians many times to “run the race set before them.” He told us to run hard and finish strong. Here in Revelation, we are reminded to finish. We are reminded to persevere. We are reminded of what our mission is: to run this race, to seek God and abide in Him and know Him intimately, and to finish this life serving our King. We are told to endure. We are to give it our all. We are to fight our hardest, relying on the strength of God to get us through. Do we cave under pressure or do we fight to stand and stand strong for our King? We are to run hard and to finish. Running hard does us no good if we don’t finish. We need to rely upon God as he is our strength and we truly “can do all things through Christ who strengthens us (Phil 4:13).” Family, I really pray that we all fight to grow in our walks. Our walks with God can be compared to running up an escalator, backwards. If you lower the effort being put into achieving the goal, progress is lost and you regress, however if you push harder and run faster you will eventually reach the goal. When faced with a challenge, we are to push harder and run faster, having God guide us and provide us with the strength needed to get through this race. 

Depend on Him for strength, your own will never allow you to finish victorious.

-Ryan

In regards to chapters 6-13 of Revelation, I encourage reading those chapters and truly diving into them. I really was blown away at the amazing display of power that God demonstrates. It can be so easy to forget that God has so much power and even everything in this chapters is just a fraction of His power. Check the chapters out and be amazed at the power of our King!