It's a long journey we must travel to reach our destination, and opportunity for discouragement often arises along the way.  Walk on, push harder, reach further until you make it to the glorious prize set before you. 

It takes something more than courage. It takes faith, a God given ability to look beyond the sights taken in day by day in this world with weak, tired, sore eyes.  It takes love, a God given ability to overcome pain and anger and see others the way God would have us see them.  It takes action, a God given ability to stand firm in the face of persecution and tribulation.  In jest, it takes a God given ability.

Ephesians 1:3
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.  (NIV)