GIVE IT UP

Luke 21:19 (KJV)
“In your patience possess ye your souls.”
Patience in the original language means to endure or constancy. Simply means circumstance and events will not move us from our position. Before times, during times, or end times, our position must remain the same. Our intimacy with God must be pursued regardless of the times and one time from another should not measure our submission to God; our submission should always be available.
If we are intimate with God before the end times arrive, we will not struggle with being intimate with him when they do. Jesus also said, “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it” (Luke 9:24).
Life is perplexing all in itself regardless of the times. The only moment we can control is the time at hand or the moment we hold in our hands. Therefore, give it up for Jesus; we will never lose our lives if we do. No matter what comes or what goes we must begin our passion for God and maintain our passion for God, this is patience, this is endurance, and this is constancy.