You need to have a sense of how stubborn God is about his promises. Stubbornness is not always bad. Sometimes it is a virtue. My oldest brother, in his younger days, was playing with some of his cars and his toys and they were in bad shape. Some of the wheels and tires had fallen off and because that would tear up the floor, my dad wanted to get rid of them. He chucked them under the front porch through the lattice work and he figured they would be heard of no more. Then one day he heard a kid crying and when he finally located where the cry was coming from, it was coming from my brother trapped under the front porch. Before my dad could dig him out, he took every one of those old beat-up toys and cars and trucks and he handed them through the lattice to my dad. That is what you call stubbornness. There is a sense that you get that feeling of stubbornness, though, if you see how stubborn the living God is in fulfilling his promises. You see what a virtue it is and what a rock of security it is to God's people.1
Dale Ralph Davis
23 On that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel my servant, the son of Shealtiel, declares the LORD, and make you like a signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares the LORD of hosts.”