“Now we desire each of you to demonstrate the same diligence for the full assurance of your hope until the end, so that you won’t become lazy but will be imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and perseverance.” (vv. 11-12)

There is a huge difference between desiring diligence and demonstrating it.

A lot of us desire diligence. That applies to just about everything—health, work, finances—and it for-sure applies in faith. We want to be the people who go deeper in study, further in service, and greater in generosity. We desire diligence and its fruit.

But demonstrating diligence is something else entirely. Demonstrating diligence means carrying that desire into action. We get hung up because we think the action needs to resemble the fruit of diligence over time, but what we’re really after is the action that builds diligence brick by brick. A demonstration of diligence looks like taking small diligent steps, and consistently.

There’s a big difference between desiring and demonstrating. Let’s take some steps together.

— Tyler