Lack of Stick-to-itiveness

Christians need to develop a very healthy, growing fear of (offending) the Lord, which will provide us with thick skins and foreheads made of diamond, harder than flint (Ezekiel 3:9). That is where I believe it starts as we know from Scripture (Proverbs 1:7). That fear of God doesn't just happen. It must be coaxed into being and I firmly believe God creates it within us in response to the our desire to have it.