It is for discipline that you have to endure.
Hebrews 12:7
Helps Word Study on Endure ~
5281 hypomonē ““(from 5259/hypó, "under" and 3306/ménō, "remain, endure") – properly, remaining under, i.e. endurance; steadfastness, especially of God enabling believers to "remain (endure) under" the challenges He allots for them.”“
For the believer, 5281 (hypomonē) is "Christ-empowered endurance" which enables them to get from "God's point A" to "God's point B."
Examples:
Hebrews 12:1,2,Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance (5281/hypomonē) the race that is set before us, 2fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God" (NASB).
James 1:3: "Knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance (5281/hypomonē)" (NASB).
[Note also Rev 3:10, "The word of My endurance (5281/hypomonē)" bringing Christ's direction in the believer – revealing the how, what, and when of faith.]
Sometimes we feel like discipline is just a bad word, yet without this being a practical part of our lives we will not engage faithfully in our circumstances. Enduring requires discipline. As James wrote, we can not grow up and be made perfect, complete, lacking nothing, without endurance. Left to the dictates of our flesh, we would eat too much, sleep too much, whine too much, talk too much; you get the idea ~ the casting off of restraints.
The writer of Hebrews tells us if we are left without discipline we are not true sons. The purpose of all discipline is to learn how to discipline ourselves. The ability to set boundaries and keep within them is part of what we consider mature behaviour. Hebrews continues when we have been trained through disciplines, it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.
So, we must learn how to “endure” the uncomfortable situations of life. In every circumstance favourable or unfavourable, God is at work. There are lessons to be learned and character to be forged. Without disciplining ourselves to “remain in and under” the direction of the Holy Spirit, yielded to the Father, we will try to escape. You know, “the problem with a living sacrifice is that it’s always trying to slip off the altar”.
Jesus learned obedience by the things He suffered. An unwillingness to engage in the tough stuff will not grow us up. We are to learn how to count it all joy, rejoice in our sufferings; knowing that suffering produces endurance and endurance produces character…. because we are leaning into a dependency of the Holy Spirit to help us overcome. We have committed ourselves to Him who judges righteously. We are assured that with the temptation, God has made the way of escape that we may bear it.
These will be the days that call for the endurance of the saints. 2020 might be over but the season we are in isn’t. God has realigned His church with purpose for this hour. It isn’t a sleeping giant, rather a well toned solider knowing how to endure hardness. His church is alive, ready, willing and engaged, seizing every moment to extend His Kingdom and show forth His glory.
Onward, Christian Soldiers…..