"The Undiscouraged Perseverance of God"

We often think of "perseverance" as mainly our job, while God coaches and waits. Oswald Sanders wrote eloquently of God's gracious and enduring loyalty to Jacob:

In the face of onslaughts of the common temptations, the great majority of people commonly experience failure. The same old sin revives, gathers strength and masters them. The same tragic failure or flaw of character pursues them throughout life like a bloodhound. Paralysis of hope develops through a succession of defeats.
The God of Jacob is pre-eminently the God of the second chance to Christians who have failed and failed persistently. The second chance does not avert the consequences of past failure, but even failure can be a steppingstone to new victories. To the child of God failure can have an important educative value. God does not waste even failure.
The outstanding lesson of Jacob’s life is that no failure need be final. There is hope with the God of Jacob for any disposition or temperament. No past defeat puts future victory out of reach. When God has saved and apprehended a person, He pursues him with undiscourageable perseverance that He might bless him. God will turn the tables on the Devil by creating a wider ministry out of our very defeats.
(Oswald Sanders, “The Undiscouraged Perseverance of God,” in Spiritual Maturity)