Don't Quit

Whitney Hopler

Life is an endurance race that's filled with challenging circumstances. It's all too easy to get discouraged when situations aren't working out the way you'd like, or to be tempted to quit when you can't see results from your hard work. But God will give you faith enough to finish the race well if you rely on His strength to keep running.

Here are some ways you can persevere through tough times in your life:

Adapted from Faith Enough to Finish, copyright 2001 by Jill Briscoe. Published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Ill., www.tyndale.com, 1-800-323-9400.

Jill Briscoe is executive editor of Just Between Us, a magazine for ministry wives and women in ministry, and serves on the board of World Relief and Christianity Today International. She and her husband Stuart have three grown children and 13 grandchildren.

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