We must never give up as tough times will come and go and everything happens for a purpose, but we can always rely on God. Encouragement is essential to our Christian growth and can make all the difference in a person’s life. Also we can, over time, help others to choose to believe and live God’s way – and it may be that our encouraging and positive way of looking to the fulfillment of the promises of God will help someone else to hold fast to the end.