Persevere

Persevere - to remain constant, maintain a purpose despite difficulty.

Theses trees survived a long, hot, Texas Drought. And are sporting their colors to declare they made it. They are in their glory.

Glory doesn't come cheaply.

Jesus paid the ultimate price. Not just death on a cross, but the death of separation from the Father. And then rose from the dead into Glory Everlasting.

John 17:5
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

Don't lose faith, persevere, and remain constant in the purpose of the Gospel. And His glory will shine in and around you. Not that you can boast in yourself, but in the Goodness of God.

Jeremiah 9:24
But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.

Don't just Persevere - Flourish

James 1:12 NASB
Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

Psalm 92:13
Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.

In this time of drought, this plant pushed through the cracked ground and flourishes.

And that is how the children of the Living God should appear to those in darkness. Not that we are exempt from the trials of this world, but that we overcome them by the Blood of the Lamb.

John 16:33
These things I (Jesus) have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

1 John 4:4
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

Live as people of Hope. Don't look at the waves of problems that rise around, but look up knowing that He is in us and will never leave us. In Jesus, we have won eternal life, and abundant life even here on this earth.

In Jesus, we win. We will not be defeated. Let your faith shoot the cracked ground of these times and flourish.