Hebrews 10:36 says, “For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.” James 1:3 says, “Knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.”

Romans 5:3 in the Amplified says, “Moreover (let us also be full of joy now!) let us exult and triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance.”

God’s way through our trials develops His character in us. He endured the cross for us through joy. Nehemiah 8:10 says that the joy of the Lord is our strength. Colossians 1:11 says, “Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy.”

Jesus’ gift of irrevocable joy was imparted to us the moment of our salvation. John 15:10-11 says, “If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love…These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.” Endurance through joy.