Endurance is withstanding challenges, hardship or adversity. Enduring is difficult with walls crumbling around you. You feel overwhelmed and attacked resulting in being vulnerable and anxious. Do not allow the negative emotions to control you. Change your perspective. View the situation as providing spiritual maturity and testing inner peace.
Be assured that the testing of your faith produces endurance (James1:3, NIV).
Outcome is development
Times of adversity draws you closer to God. Conforming into the image of his son and growing in character. Jesus endured torture, ridicule, whipping, beaten and crucifixion. He is the evidence of what you can endure.
In adversity is where you find God and yourself. Knowing him and increasing in awareness of you. You are developing.
Unseen
And let endurance have its perfect result and a thorough work, so that you may be perfect and completely developed, lacking in nothing (James 1:4, NIV).
Natural sight makes it difficult to go through. The natural focuses on the situation and not the outcome. The outcome is visible to the spirit. The invisible is the building of character, strength and wisdom. Molding into the person needed to live purposefully.
Maturity
There is no avoiding adversity. Life challenges are inevitable. Hold tightly to hope. Romans 12:12 (NIV) says “be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” Use the power of prayer to combat the anxiety, worry and any other negative emotions. Speak to God and not the problem. Speaking to the problem will result in negative emotions that cause you to lose heart and give up. Speaking to God enables you to keep running to obtain the prize. Running builds endurance. Let endurance work within you. Performing the transformation needed. Equipping you to progress. Moving forward in being who you are to be.
