Tenacity

That Oswald Chambers sure knows what he is talking about. He says this:

Tenacity is more than endurance, it is endurance combined with the absolute certainty that what we are looking for is going to transpire. Tenacity is more than hanging on, which may be but the weakness of being too afraid to fall off. Tenacity is the supreme effort of a man refusing to believe that his hero is going to be conquered.... If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means that they are being purified. There is nothing noble the human mind has ever hoped for or dreamed of that will not be fulfilled. One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.

I feel that strain in this stage of my life. Although it is the strain of waiting for God, the words I would use to describe it and the words Jesus is inviting me to embrace are - letting go. Let go. Let go and wait for God. There is an outcome, a result to the letting go. It's not in vain. The outcome - purification.

Wait.
Let go.
Pure.

I may not like the process but I sure like the sound of the outcome.