“In your patience possess ye your souls.” Luke 21:18
“Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.” James 5:7,8,10
Consider the patience of Job, while waiting for answers and deliverance from his inexplicable circumstances.
Joseph was betrayed and sold into slavery by his own brothers. For 13 long years, he waited for deliverance from bondage and imprisonment, but it came in glorious fashion.
David suffered for approximately 7 years, while Saul hunted him, seeking to kill him, even though David had been Saul’s most valuable servant. But by patient waiting, David traded his cross for a crown.
Jeremiah, who saw nothing but the decline and captivity of his nation, had to commit his keeping patiently into the hands of the Lord.
Elijah had to patiently endure the famine, as he faced the continual impenitence of unreasonable and wicked men.
In every generation, God’s children have had to wait upon the Lord, as they have been beset with incorrigible people and circumstances. Noah persevered in building the ark in the midst of the moral corruption and spiritual reprobation of his world.
Satan has, and will continue to fly up in the face of God’s children, doing everything he can to provoke us. IN PATIENCE – REMEMBER: the reason things bother us is because we care, and caring is a wonderful virtue. It is when evil no longer bothers us, that we have lost our savor.
“For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.” Hebrews 10:36
“I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.” Psalm 40:1,2,4
