There is two kinds of toughness, one is when we act tough and the second is when we are tough. The difference shows up over the long haul, real toughness as a character trait endures, perseveres, doesn’t lose heart and quit. In fact I have stopped using the words tough and grit, and I use the word endure and endurance instead.

2 Corinthians 6:4-5 but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses, in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hunger,

Hebrews 10:36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

Hebrews 12:1-2 Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

The success of almost anything requires that we finish what we started. The one’s who finish well are those who endure. Endurance in us requires a motivation, asking and answering the question of “why”? Why are we doing what we are doing, why finish? According to the Bible the more we can make what we are doing as act of love for other people around us, and the more we can do what we are doing to please the lord, the more motivated we will be and then the more we will endure.

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