Patient Endurance

If it’s all about you and all about now, what do you think you’ll be and have of value at the end? 

June’s Awakening, Day 27

There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man’s faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.

 —Martyn Lloyd-Jones

God delights to increase the faith of His children. We ought, instead of wanting no trials before victory, no exercise for patience, to be willing to take them from God’s hands as a means. Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.

 —George Mueller

He is not truly patient who will endure only as much as he pleases and from whom he pleases. A truly patient person bears all, and it matters not whether he is wronged by someone whose social standing is superior, inferior, or equal to his own.

 —Thomas à Kempis 

being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, Colossians 1:11 NIV

            It may be one of the greatest challenges of our time, and in our hectic nonstop world, to be and practice—patience. Yet it may be one of the most powerful virtues and characteristics that we can possess and actively live each day in. We are of the “me and now” generation and mentality and have been conditioned and brainwashed by the world to believe that this is the way it should certainly be. But that is not so. Deferred gratification does wonders in building character and appreciation for the hard work and effort that goes into anything of worthwhile value. Furthermore, we are admonished to bear with others and bear under the strains of life, for surely this is what life will bring us. Patient endurance to the end and deferring the best for last is what will win the race—not satisfying self with everything the world thinks you should be and have all along the way and hoping for the best at the end. 

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