All throughout the Bible, one of the more reoccurring themes is perseverance. Now I am in no way an expert, therefore I really didn’t know what the heck perseverance was. At a glance it just seemed to be getting through the situation. I would like to conjecture otherwise. After looking at it closer, this beautiful life that we are given is not given to just merely get through, but rather to fight. Perseverance to me is not just sitting round taking the blows and getting through, but to stand, be courageous. I believe the sole purpose of perseverance is for us to fight against the grain. When we are in a bind we start fighting back, with the Lord’s strength. We do not simply just lay around until the situation is over, but we start fighting clawing our way into the truth. You see we fall at the feet of Jesus begging him for help and his simple answer is, I have already given it to you, it’s called the Bible. When we are trying to persevere, we should be doing it with he truth and the Word. Satan and God himself are bound to the promises made in that book…..it’s one of the basis of our lives. We need to stop playing defense and start going on offense. When the Lord says to preserve, it doesn’t mean to wait it means to fight, fight with everything that you have. Fight with the truth, fight for the truth, fight because God himself deems it worthy for you to be alive, fight with every ounce of passion, fight with every limb. Don’t just sit back and take it but fight as if you knew you were going to win the war, for the war has already been completed. Fight in strategic ways, fight in blunt ways, in all situations fight for the Lord, for it is not by your strength that you are fighting.

Why does it seem like everything I have written seem like it has been written before. Like I can’t come up with my own thoughts or opinion I am just scrounging of other people ideas and thoughts. Oh how would it feel to come up with something, some original thought that hasn’t been sought out before. Not to be recognized or to be seen, but to know that I contributed to the bettering of society. To be able to say that I fought the darkness and shed just a little bit of light and hope. To think that for one moment I have inspired someone else to become the best that they could be. That day would be glorious to see that person and how that person would make an impact on others. I fell like Russell Crowe in the movie A Beautiful Mind. I know the lord has given me an incredible mind I only try to strive and live up to the potential that the good Lord has given me. He has given me an incredible spirit and an incredible ability. If only I could some how be able to tap into that huge source that I have been given. I just can’t fathom how, it’s as if there is a huge vault that is holding everything and I have misplaced the key. I cannot find the way to unlock it. So much building not just inside me but inside my soul, just doing enough to remind me that it is there, but not doing enough to give me the secret. Just want to yell, with all that I have, just to let even a little bit out. To think that I have something to offer this world and I am not capitalizing on just makes my head want to explode, to know that deep down you have got something that may in fact help others in their lie is an amazing thought, I feel as if I can relate to John Adams, Martin Luther King Jr, all those who have had incredible feats before me and has tapped into that vault. They somehow found the key. I wonder if at this young of an age they have experienced things like this, how did they cope, knowing that deep inside they are about to explode. How in the world did they go on each day when in all actuality they are not living. For them to truly live they need to be doing all that they can, did they find refuge in education? Did they seek books to satisfy their desires? I know that the more books I read the more unsatisfied I will become, for books will only inspire me more. Give me more of other people’s ideas to write about. To reiterate what I have read, but I will still be stuck here in the same predicament, with these same thoughts weighing on my mind, time and time again until the next time I explode.