long suffering......

Longsuffering ...


Longsuffering is love on trial. It enables you to forbear and forgive others (Colossians 3:13). As with the other manifestations of spiritual fruit, you can't produce it in yourself. The ability to be longsuffering comes from the Holy Spirit (Colossians 1:11) and by loving God's law. (Psalm 119:165)

Longsuffering is also be referred to as patience. Patience is being mild, gentle, and constant in all circumstances. The real test of patience is not in waiting, but in how one acts while he or she is waiting. A person who has developed patience will be able to put up with things without losing his or her temper. Scripture tells us in James 1:4 "But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting (lacking) nothing." Reaching this point is definitely a process which takes a lot of practice. However, we can learn to enjoy life where we are while we are waiting for what we desire.

Ephesians 4:1-2 "I beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love."

II Timothy 4:2 "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine."

II Peter 3:9 "The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."


Longsuffering.... is the REAL walk of a Christian life filled by the Spirit. Many churches today preach the "health, wealth and prosperity" road but the one of the bible speaks of another. Think about it... God is the most "longsuffering" in His mercy and patience with us, Jesus was "long suffering" out of love to the point of death for us. How is it that Christians today seem to view "long suffering" as something to be avoided, or worse yet completely unacceptable? The pusuit of continual happiness and feeling life is ripping you off if you can't be in a state of constant happiness is where the world has crept into the teaching of the church and the minds of Christians.