WELCOME Last day of endurance month, and this is not a day to rush past. Look back before you look forward, because what happened this month is still working in you. ——— THIS IS FOR YOU IF…You are ready to move on from this month without pausing to notice what it actually changed in you. You are tempted to measure this month only by how hard it was, instead of by what it produced. ——— Paul compared present suffering to future glory in a way that reframes an entire hard season, and it is worth reading slowly on a day like today. ——— BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT What felt heavy this month was light compared to what it is producing in you that you cannot fully see yet. ——— OUR SPRINGBOARD FOR TODAY’S DISCUSSION IS: “For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen.” (2 Corinthians 4:17-18, ESV) ——— JOIN US AS A FAITH PARTNER Every hard season this ministry has walked through eventually produced something worth the weight. Faith Partners were part of carrying that weight, and they are part of whatever this month produces too. ——— MAIN MENTORING Paul calls his afflictions light and momentary here, and by this point in his ministry Paul had already endured shipwreck, imprisonment, beatings, and betrayal from people close to him. He is not minimizing real suffering or pretending it did not cost him anything. He is comparing it honestly to something so weighty and so lasting that it makes even the hardest season look small next to it. That comparison only actually works if you believe the unseen thing is truly real, not merely a consolation prize handed out for surviving a hard month. Look back at what you cannot fully measure yet from where you are standing today, at the very end of this one. The exhaustion, the silence, the delay, the temptation to quit early, all of it was quietly producing something Paul calls an eternal weight of glory, not just a personal lesson filed away for later. You are not the same person who started this month wondering whether you could actually make it through. You already know you can, because you just did exactly that. ——— DAILY ACTION Write one sentence naming what endurance month actually built in you, something specific you can point to. Thank God for it, and keep that sentence somewhere you will see it again. ——— THE DAILY CHARGE What felt heavy is producing weight of a different kind. Carry what you learned into whatever season comes next. ——— LET’S PRAY Father, this month has been heavy, and I have wondered more than once whether it was worth it. Thank You that You called it light and momentary compared to what it is producing in me, something eternal I cannot fully see yet. I am not the same person who started this month. Carry what You built in me forward into whatever comes next. In Jesus’ name, amen. ——— RAK CHAZAK!! Only. Be. Strong!Semper InvictusFaith. Fire. Victory. ——— JOIN US Endurance month is complete, and what it built in you is not. Subscribe so you do not miss what comes next, and send this final episode to someone who endured this month right alongside you. My Reasons To Believe is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit myr2b.substack.com/subscribe