Patience

Three Crosses at Sunset

BE PATIENT WITH GOD

Psalm 75:2 (NIV)  You say, "I choose the appointed time; it is I who judge uprightly."

PATIENCE IS VALUABLE

Proverbs 25:15 (NIV) Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.

PATIENCE IS BETTER THAN PRIDE

Ecclesiastes 7:8 (NIV)  The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.

PATIENCE DEMONSTRATES LOVE

1 Corinthians 13:4 (NIV)  Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

PATIENCE IS EVIDENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WORKING IN OUR LIVES

Galatians 5:22 (NIV)  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.

BE PATIENT WITH EACH OTHER

Ephesians 4:2 (NIV) Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

 

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“God often permits us to be perplexed so that we may learn patience.”  T. J. Bach [Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World]

 

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