Patience

Patience What is patience? The dictionary says that patience is forbearing pains or trials calmly or without complaint. Job complained or expressed his pain and suffering “My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall so we must amend the dictionary into diverse temptations; knowing this, definition. The type of complaint that that the trying of your faith worketh we must not do is the way that the patience. But let patience have her children of Israel complained in the perfect work, that ye may be perfect and wilderness, murmuring against God endure, wanting nothing.” James 1: 2-4. and expressing anger. Job while expressing his grief, even as Christ also did in the psalms and prior to his crucifixion, never lost his integrity. The second definition of patience in the dictionary is better. It means manifesting forbearance under provocation or strain. For bear means to control oneself. Another definition is to be steadfast despite opposition, difficulty or adversity. Let us define patience as steadfast obedience to God under tribulation or adversity. When you obey God, and when you can control yourself and your actions even under very adverse conditions, keeping your integrity, you are showing patience. The actual Hebrew meaning of the word patience includes long suffering and endurance. Long suffering is long and patience endurance of offense. God is long suffering to his children as well as to the children of the devil. He gives everyone time to obey. He does not destroy them at the first offense and usually not even after many offenses. Number 14:18, II Peter 3:9, Romans 9:22, Ecclesiasticus 18:8-14. To be long suffering is one of the fruits of the spirit which brings us into the likeness of God. Galatians 5:22, Colossians 1:10-11. We must be long suffering to each other. Ephesians 4: 1-3, Colossians 3:12-13. Endurance means the ability to withstand hardship or adversity, the ability to sustain a long stress effort. Christ speaks about the last days in Matthew chapter 24, and he says in verse 13-”but he that shall endure until the end the same shall be saved.” It is necessary to have endurance because we must all go through hardship and adversity. In fact God proves us, whether we will obey or not with trials and afflictions and sacrifice. It is relatively easy to obey God when all things are going well and when no sacrifice is required of you. The young man who Christ spoke to who wanted eternal life said that he had kept the law since his youth , but Christ looking at him knew his weakness and he tried him, he said sell all that you have and give to the poor and follow me. The young man went away sorrowful because he could not make the sacrifice. He could obey the law as long as he did not have to sacrifice the comforts of this life. Christ also taught us what happens when someone has no endurance with his parable of the sower and the seed. Matthew 13: 3-6, Mark 4: 16-17. The description of Charity in I Corinthians chapter 13 (Which we know is divine love in perfection) includes being long suffering and having endurance. verse 7 says “beareth