Endurance

I want to say something about endurance that I haven’t heard mentioned much: Its main application and focus is in relationship to the church.  

While there is application in our everyday individual and family lives, overall the eternal application relates to the people of God with one another.  

When you are able to see it, it is amazing how everything in the scriptures ties into Christ and His church in connection to His eternal purpose.  
Endurance is another of these tremendous things.  

For example, how can we even begin to experience and enter into the eternal purpose of Jesus Christ without having endurance? It can’t be done.  

First we must learn to endure the working of God in our lives.

Then we must learn to endure others. Since fellowship with God is the overall umbrella over His eternal purpose, there isn’t far to go before it extends to one another.  

So to give the purpose of God a chance to work within us together, there must be much fortitude and staying power. If there isn’t, the purpose of God will never be worked out within our lives. It’s that simple.  

Since endurance is Christ, we must continually be in fellowship with Him and the Father so that we may have this vital aspect of Him worked within us. If we don’t we will never stay together long enough to have the eternal purpose worked within us.  

That’s why Paul prayed that the church would be strengthened with all might according to the glorious power of God, to the end that we would be patient and longsuffering toward one another with joyfulness.  

Without this being worked within us, we can never fulfill the purpose of God in the earth.