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Perseverance is an important virtue,  requires confidence in God,  and is your means to overcome! And it looks good on a T-Shirt! What is  one thing you feel like you are “persevering” right now? I have three projects I am working on at our house: an upstairs closet for my wife, a wall behind the fridge has come loose, and a small, stairwell window needs to be made bigger so we can move bedroom furniture upstairs (finally). I say three projects, but you and I know projects are never ending (I am also simultaneously working on painting the back patio and resealing our driveway and maybe ...). I think I am persevering a lot! James wanted us to know something about persevering. He wrote from a Christ-like perspective to inform us that perseverance is not a natural outcome unless faith is involved: the testing of your faith  produces steadfastness (or perseverance) . The faith he is speaking about is in Jesus specifically. When we have made it throug...