While most people evoke images of some stoic person that keeps plugging away to accomplish a goal - say coaching a particularly bad athlete to be able to score the winning touchdown during the championship game. Though this image contains pieces and parts of the Biblical patience, it paints an incomplete picture. Patience, according to the Bible, is better defined as long tempered or long-suffering. The ability to endure when most men would break under the heavy burden of a situation is patience. As Christians, the Bible proclaims that there will be persecution and pain associated with a true relationship with God. The people of the world will spit and swear at the people of God, and His people have to be prepared, even willing, to allow it to come to pass. The only way to do so is to have a spirit of patience grown by
While most people evoke images of some stoic person that keeps plugging away to accomplish a goal - say coaching a particularly bad athlete to be able to score the winning touchdown during the championship game. Though this image contains pieces and parts of the Biblical patience, it paints an incomplete picture. Patience, according to the Bible, is better defined as long tempered or long-suffering. The ability to endure when most men would break under the heavy burden of a situation is patience. As Christians, the Bible proclaims that there will be persecution and pain associated with a true relationship with God. The people of the world will spit and swear at the people of God, and His people have to be prepared, even willing, to allow it to come to pass. The only way to do so is to have a spirit of patience grown by