Perseverance | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 21, 1872

Perseverance.

PERSEVERANCE is a virtue much talked of, yet but little appreciated. What might be accomplished in the material world, if people would only put perseverance at the helm! Who is there who has not felt this in his or her experience?

How many times when we are all alive to the beauty of good deeds, we yearn to perform them, we resolve that hereafter we will be more vigilant, more faithful in the performance of our duties; but the glow of our feelings dies out because the little virtue above mentioned is not practiced, and we fall back into our old way of acting on the impulse of the moment, and not according to our highest conviction of right.

How often we feel the ability to perform something with the talents given us, and we promise ourselves that we will rouse and try to make the most of our gifts! But the enthusiasm passes, and lack of time or energy prevents our carrying out our plans, and when we next review ourselves we feel unmixed regret at our lack of perseverance.