Galatians 6:9 CSB – Let us not get tired of doing good, for we will reap at the proper time if we don’t give up.

Resilience stems from committing to your God-given purpose.

2 Corinthians 4:1 CSB – Therefore, since we have this ministry because we were shown mercy, we do not give up.

2 Corinthians 4:8-10 CSB – We are afflicted in every way but not crushed; we are perplexed but not in despair9 we are persecuted but not abandoned; we are struck down but not destroyed.10 We always carry the death of Jesus in our body, so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed in our body.

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Frederick Nietzsche

Jeremiah 17:9 CSB – The heart is more deceitful than anything else, and incurable — who can understand it?

Resilience stems from verbalizing your God-given identity

2 Corinthians 4:2; 5-6 CSB – Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful things, not acting deceitfully or distorting the word of God, but commending ourselves before God to everyone’s conscience by an open display of the truth.5 For we are not proclaiming ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’s sake.6 For God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of God’s glory in the face of Jesus Christ.

1 John 3:1 CSB – See what great love the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children — and we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know him.

Galatians 3:28 CSB – There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male and female; since you are all one in Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 4:2 Message – “We refuse to wear masks and play games. We don’t maneuver and manipulate behind the scenes. And we don’t twist God’s word to suit ourselves. Rather, we keep everything we do and say out in the open, the whole truth on display, so that those who want to can see and judge for themselves in the presence of God.”

Resilience stems from acknowledging your weakness

2 Corinthians 4:7 CSB – Now we have this treasure in clay jars, so that this extraordinary power may be from God and not from us.