Week 10. Songs of Ascent – Psalm 129 – Perseverance

Anything truly meaningful in life will come to a place that requires perseverance, this includes discipleship. We don’t persevere because it makes us worthy of a relationship with God, we persevere because of the Gospel. We are saved by grace, but perseverance will flow out of that grace. In Psalm 129 the pilgrims sing these words on the way up to Jerusalem, they took the journey. We live after Jesus came, instead of going up we realize that God came down to rescue us. Our worth before God is not based on how well we persevere, it is based upon how He persevered for us. This teaches that a Christian suffers with hope and perseveres with hope! True perseverance only comes when we understand the Gospel.

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