Obedience in the Bible is a pathway to humility and fulfilling life.
Tests, pressure, setbacks, failure, and trouble can expose the condition of our faith. We need Bible verses about resilience to help us believe that those challenges don’t have to own us.
Something we can all learn from basketball, that gets little attention when it comes to our relationship with God, is the importance of an offense and defense to beat burnout.
Jesus had the resilience to continually going back to God in prayer to face his fears of dying. He did not give up but kept fighting with God to get the faith to move forward.
God doesn’t want us to feel like we have to conform in order to be accepted, and wants to help us become strong enough to stand for what we believe and who we are.
When we decide to be humble and take God seriously instead of ourselves, good things happen.
Humble people have room to love. When we’re humble we are able to love God and others more because we think their lives are equally valuable to our own.
Fearless people have tenacity, which is the ability to keep fighting for something, and to believe you can win.
Perseverance is the continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, discouragement or opposition. To persist and not give up.
At the end of this, you should develop a strengthening faith capable of helping you faithfully endure anything, anytime, anywhere, because you know God is working for your good (Romans 8:28-32 Voice).
Naomi is one of the rare individuals in scripture who demonstrates the “Deep Humility” necessary to see and admit the depth of her brokenness.