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LONGSUFFERING 4

LONGSUFFERING 4
I start with 1 Corinthians 13 vs. 4: Charity suffers long, and is kind; charity envies not, charity vaunts not itself, is not puffed up. Vs. 5: Does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil. Then Vs. 7: Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. GOD truly is love. No wonder he sent CHRIST. He that get easily provoke has no patient, such cannot bear all things, such cannot endure all things. JESUS did bear all our debts of sin and he endured the suffering on the cross for us to be saved. Only a person that truly loves you will bear all things and endure all things. It’s just like a mother that bears all things during pregnancy and after pregnancy. The woman will go through a lot while in the delivery room. I once visited a neighbor of mine that put to birth few years back, and a woman was rushed into the clinic. Her reactions showed women go through life and death while delivery. Most endure all these just because they love their husbands and the child. They endure not sleeping until the baby sleeps, they bear a lot. JESUS did the same for us.


             

However, it is always good to exercise patient in all our doings. Impatience is the opposite of patience. It doesn’t tolerate. It is restlessness. Impatience has caused a lot of people disaster, what being patience would have resolved and calm. Moses’s impatience costed him taking the Israelites to the promise land. He couldn’t control his anger. Anger is the work of the flesh. It is a small madness and shouldn’t be exhibited by a child of GOD. A crucified body won’t get angry. Numbers 20 vs. 7-8: And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying; Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock; so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink. Vs. 10 -12: And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, hear now, ye rebels, must we fetch you water out of this rock? And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice; and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank and their beast also. And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children if Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land I have given them. Start this week by exercising patience and self -control in all your doings. Kindly share with others…….It is well with us

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