Good morning everyone and welcome back to the Messy masterpiece podcast which had an

Tory happy Monday. Happy Monday. Happy Monday. We hope you had a great weekend and we're

excited to jump into today's devotional. We are picking up on day three of our hope and

suffering Bible at plan devotional where there is a link in the description to if you want to

fall along with us and I'm going to read the scripture and then Tory is going to read the devotional

and if you have if you have not already listened to yesterday's we what's cool about this devotional

is there's actually some questions to work through and so we do encourage you that towards the end

of this devotional whenever we ask one of those questions to press pause and think on it,

journal it, pray about it, all that stuff to really get the most out of your devotional time.

Absolutely. Sweet. So the verse is Deuteronomy. I have such a hard time saying that word.

Deuteronomy 31 verse 8. I'm reading from the new living translation. Do not be afraid or

discouraged for the Lord will personally go ahead of you. He will be with you. He will neither

fail you nor abandon you. I love that verse. The devotional is on endurance and it says,

for many of us the word endurance tends to bring to mind an elite athlete, the marathon runner,

Ironman triathlete or Olympian who has trained his or her whole life for a single shot at gold.

But endurance in the game of life is something we all must learn. Similar to faith, endurance is

a muscle. The more life asks us to endure, the stronger we grow. In learning to endure,

we are both accepting timing we can't control and choosing to believe that the weight itself

has purpose. And so we wait for dreams to come true, a job, a spouse, a child, for the intangible

things in life, healing, peace, joy, we wait through seasons for one to end or another to begin.

Developing endurance is neither easy nor comfortable, but it is worth it. Learning to trust the

Father's goodness even when the pack before us is dim is what stimulates growth in our faith.

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