Persevering Faith in Seasons of Weakness – Hebrews 12:12-13

In our Christian race we are to put forth our utmost spiritual strength and activity. All graces are to be kept up unto their exercise, and all duties to be attended unto with diligence. But where the course is long, or the difficulties are great, we are apt to grow weary, to despond; first to wish it at an end, and then to give over. And this frame ariseth from a composition of two evil ingredients: 1. Despondency as to success; 2. Weariness of duty. In them do our hands hang down, and our knees grow feeble. – John Owen