Anyone else have a season rife with constant ups and downs, highs and lows, ease and challenges? Not knowing what to make of these swings, a word was given to me, “patient continuance”. In other words—keep walking regardless of circumstances. Don’t fight, don’t fret, don’t be anxious, don’t worry, don’t get frustrated, and certainly don’t get angry. The flesh doesn’t like this season, but if we are to overcome the flesh and its reactions, we must have ‘patient continuance’.

Sometimes we don’t understand all the circumstances we face. But in all things, it’s about sitting with contentment, watching with diligence, and waiting with patience. This must be how the flesh is conquered, because it doesn’t like this stuff of circumstances, and we are tempted to step off into the ungodly and do or say or think something that is unwise. The more we practice patience continuance with full reliance on God, the more we become steadfast and immovable, pass through a season of circumstances, and overcome the flesh.

Sometimes it seems that more and more, that walking with God is a thin red line. We must be patient. We must be content. We must be diligent. And we must continue.

Romans 2:5-8 But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who “will render to each one according to his deeds”: eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness-indignation and wrath.