What does it mean to truly endure in faith when the cost is high? Drawing from 2 Timothy 2:8-13, we are confronted with one of the most challenging and yet most liberating truths in all of Scripture: suffering and faithfulness are not opposites -- they are companions. Paul, writing from a Roman prison cell to a discouraged Timothy, does not offer easy comfort or a prosperity-gospel shortcut. Instead, he points to the one anchor that holds when everything else gives way -- Jesus Christ, risen from the dead and descended from David.