Hold Your Ground

During the war chapters of the Book of Mormon, the Nephites were mostly on the defensive. They sometimes fought to retake cities that they had lost, but they spent most of their time just trying to keep the cities they had or had retaken. This was especially true at a certain point in the war, when their government was facing internal struggles that prevented the Nephite armies from getting much-needed supplies.

When we face hardship, it can be difficult to make progress, but during those times, it may be wiser to simply try to hold our ground, rather than risking burning ourselves out and backsliding. Sometimes, just not losing ground is victory enough.

This isn't true all the time, or course. The usual, day-to-day amount of adversity is meant to be overcome, so we typically try to forge on through them. But if our trials are much stronger than normal , and we run the risk of moving farther away from the completion of our goals, it may be best if, to ensure that we don't lose the progress we've made so far, we focus on just holding our ground.