Resilience. Endurance. Grit.

I have a lot of things to pray for each day. Not so much desires for health or wealth although they matter to my existence.

I pray with an awareness and experience that life is getting harder, not easier.

And the people most likely to overcome obstacles and life circumstances beyond their control are those who are most resilient, most courageous, and who are most gritty.

To become more than conquerors (Romans 8:37) i think describes these types of people.

2Corinthians 4:8-9 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.

Tough, stoic—the kind of people who learn mind over matter and exercise callings over circumstances.

They hear tomorrow coming and prepare for it, not worry about it. They see a shortage and call it an opportunity to produce. They refuse to waste time, talent, or talk on anything less than a drive for success.

Because what drives them at their core are the verses, pronouncements bestowed upon them long ago. Truths from the OG truth-giver and overcomer who narrated into existence the red letters that will usher us into a kingdom of like-minded warriors who once believed and behaved as though lives then and now depended on it.

Isaiah 40:31

But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

True grit.

2 Timothy 4:7

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

That’s what I pray for.