micky
3/24/2019
3:54:08 PM | |  | |
Hi All!
Here is the devotion from Sunday's Prayer Call called A Picture of Patience from Quiet Places of the Heart:
The word "patience" as it is used in the New Testament, really has no true equivalent in the English language. Certainly it does not mean merely being placid and phlegmatic as so many people assume.
Patience is the powerful capacity of selfless love to suffer long under adversity. It is the noble ability to bear with either difficult people or adverse circumstances without breaking down....
Patience is the potent perseverance that produces positive results even under opposition and suffering. It is love, gracious, self-giving, pressing on, enduring hardship, because of the benefit it may bring to others....
The patience of the New Testament writers is that of a small donkey bearing enormous burdens of firewood, sacks of grain or other produce for its owner. Year in, year out, surely, steadily, safely it transports loads of goods from place to place in quiet compliance with its master's wishes.
Phillip Keller
Praying for patience for us all.
Many Blessings today and always,
Micky
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