Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:1-2
Sometimes it’s the hope of joy that makes us do more than we thought we could.
What will you and I be able to endure as we focus on the joy that is “set before” us? What repenting will be possible? What weakness will become a strength? What chastening will become a blessing? What disappointments, even tragedies, will turn to our good? And what challenging service to the Lord will we be able to give?
“Joy and Spiritual Surival,”President Russell M. Nelson, Ensign, Nov. 2016