"You Need Endurance"

After Anita was baptized as one of Jehovah's Witnesses, her husband became fiercely opposed. "He prevented me from going to meetings and forbade me to even mention God's name,  says Anita. "Just saying the name Jehovah caused my husband to fly into a rage." 

Teaching her children about Jehovah posed another challenge to Anita.  "The worship of Jehovah was banned in  my own home.I was not able to study openly with my children, nor could I take them to the meetings."

As Anita's experience illustrates, opposition from family members can be a real test of a Christian's integrity.  The same can be said of  chronic health problems, the death of a child or a spouse, or a close family member's turning his back on Jehovah. Hence, what can  help a Christian  to remain faithful to Jehovah? 

In the face of such trials, what would you do?  The apostle Paul said:  "You need endurance." (Hebrews  10:36) But what can help you to endure? 

Next time: "You Need Endurance" -PRAYERFUL RELIANCE ON JEHOVAH

From the Watchtower magazine, 2015