The Joy of Endurance

Suffering and patience are Siamese twins. If you want Patience, you’ll have to receive the other sister called Suffering. Though we’d all love to see the word “short” before “suffering” in the Bible, for some reason it’s the word, “long.” Because the very nature of suffering is that appears to go on and on and on and on. That’s why the fruit of the character of God is not just love, joy and peace. It’s gentleness, goodness, patience, long suffering and faithfulness. If we really want to be like God, to respond like God, then we have to suffer long and learn patience.