Behold! We Count Them Happy which Endure

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When anytime we hear the word 'endurance" we understand it to be something awful, hard and exhausting for a long period of time. Yet, Paul tells us in James 5:11, “Behold, we count them happy which endure” So we see that there are two words that do not seem to go together. We never really equate enduring with happiness. What does 'enduring' really mean in the Bible?"

The Greek word for endurance (or steadfast) is derived from the combination hypo, meaning “under,” and the verb meneo, meaning, “to abide.” Together they form hypomeneo, an endurance while “abiding under.” This is a strengthening derived from bearing a heavy weight upon one’s shoulders for extended periods of time–the Biblical version of “no pain, no gain.” The endurance we see and understand is earthly with few mortal gains. But there is an eternally mindedness to what endurance means spiritually. If we were only to endure great afflictions, losses, battles, sorrows and intense pains just to simply endure, then there is not happiness in it all. It just becomes something we do to "get through it."

We are about to enter swiftly into a time in prophetic history that is going to demand a different kind of endurance. There is a happiness Paul saw when he described who "they" are that he counted happy. "Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience." James 5:10. No other class of people suffered worse than the prophets of God. They were tortured, wandered alone, hated, despised, and were poor.

Yet, Paul accounted them happy because they saw the unseen and not the temporal. They endured and are now among the "great cloud of witnesses," in the upper glories of heaven land, full of great eternal happiness. If you are to endure what is coming, and to be counted happy, it is because you understand what enduring for what is eternal means, and for what endures forever. Then when it comes down to heavy enduring, a heaven-given happiness enters in that gives power to endure. "The power of an endless life."

"Wait a little longer. Ah, beloved! How despicable our troubles and trials will seem when we look back upon them! Looking at them here in the prospect, they seem immense; but when we get to heaven, they will seem to us just nothing at all….Let us go on, therefore; and if the night be ever so dark, remember there is not a night that shall not have a morning; and that morning is to come by-and-by.” ~Charles H. Spurgeon