Just curious what the implications of perseverance of the Saints would be, or the logic behind, assuming a strict monergism.
Again, I do not mean this to represent official Calvinist belief >
But if saints persevere because of God alone having us so succeed, this is simply because God is the One who in us is making sure we succeed. And God is almighty and He has us in union with Him so He can keep us >
"But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him." (1 Corinthians 6:17)
My Strong's Concordance Greek dictionary source says "united" in Greek can mean "glued". Well, we have almighty super-glue holding us together with God. So, this assures we can not get away from Him.
Plus, God is personally correcting us > Hebrews 12:4-11 < so we share with Him in His own holiness in His love's "peaceable fruit of righteousness". And this makes us more and more how Jesus is so we can easily please our Father on the day of judgment.
"Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world." (1 John 4:18)
So, our perseverance is connected with not only having some label of being the elect, but the elect are being corrected by God Himself personally curing our nature in His love, so that more and more "as He is, so are we in this world." We are so sharing with God, more and more experiencing how He is because in our character God is sharing with each of us how His love is >
"Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us." (Romans 5:5)
And this maturing in God's way of loving has us experiencing being family with our Father and Jesus and the Holy Spirit and one another who are relating the way we are called to share with one another >
"with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love," (Ephesians 4:2)
So, our perseverance more and more includes experiencing and enjoying God while growing as family with one another in tender caring and sharing >
"And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you." (Ephesians 4:32)
So, there is tender and kind forgiving; we more and better persevere in this loving, in preparation for how we will be relating with our Groom Jesus and one another.
So, persevering includes how God does not fail to truly correct us and perfect us in His love. "Love never fails," we have in 1 Corinthians 13:8. In Him there is no failure
So, our perseverance involves how His love perseveres and shares this with us.