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when we persevere, when we hang in there, that actually leads to us becoming perfect. There's there's there's a goal here. Right? So Paul writes to the Romans, he says suffering produces perseverance or endurance, and that one produces character, and then hope. Hope that God is with you. Hope that he will make you right. Hope that everything will work out in the end. And this is a certain hope. James also talks about this. You know the testing of your faith produces perseverance or steadfastness, and then when it's full effect, it will be you will be perfect. You will be perfect. Complete. Okay. This is what what we're looking forward to. You face a problem, you persevere, and you result, the result is you're perfect. Alright. That's the goal that we have. Right. We want to be perfect. What does that mean to be perfect? That means to be like Christ. We want to be like Christ in character.