The Wisdom of Patience E-Book

Elijah Edache Ehoche

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

  Success in the christian race aside salvation is made possible by acquiring/developing and manifesting virtues like patience. I mean patience with God, oneself and other people. According to the author, life is worth living if lived in patient principles and eternal damnation can be avoided, walking through life in patience. Patience is perseverance, endurance, forebearance, ability to wait a little or stay action for a moment so to achieve desired results. Patience is a fruit of the Spirit as love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. These are interdependent for a fruitful Christian life. There are really no shortcuts in life. Between every initiative and the product is the process that demands patience. This occurs in different shades and several experiences dotted throughout scriptures. It is noteworthy, that the pains and calamity of impatience far outways the rewards of patience! This is a critical choice that has to be made. I am richly blessed by this timely piece and do recommend it to every serious minded Christian willing to have a quality and productive life here on earth and make heaven seamlessly. Dr. Mike Omale Author, Researcher and Pastor   This book will give you the right view on patience and its application in this modern generation of impatient people. Patience is still a very mandatory virtue for the fulfilment of purpose and can be learned by the wisdom of experience or studies such as this. Ehoche Edache Elijah   Ehoche Edache Elijah(B.Tech, M Tech.) is a young enthusiastic learner and Biochemist. He has authored a number of resourceful and inspiring publications including poems, articles and books such as Almajiri, think about the solution, the future of Africa, the chemistry of condiments in man, etc.    

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Elijah Edache Ehoche

The Wisdom of Patience

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Title Page

The Wisdom of Patience

By

Ehoche Edache Elijah (B.Tech, MTech)

Kindly Note: All Bible Quotations are from the Berean Study Bible except otherwise stated

Forward

Success in the christian race aside salvation is made possible by acquiring/developing and manifesting virtues like patience. I mean patience with God, oneself and other people. According to the author, life is worth living if lived in patient principles and eternal damnation can be avoided, walking through life in patience.

Patience is perseverance, endurance, forebearance, ability to wait a little or stay action for a moment so to achieve desired results. Patience is a fruit of the Spirit as love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. These are interdependent for a fruitful Christian life.

There are really no shortcuts in life. Between every initiative and the product is the process that demands patience. This occurs in different shades and several experiences dotted throughout scriptures. It is noteworthy, that the pains and calamity of impatience far outways the rewards of patience! This is a critical choice that has to be made.

I am richly blessed by this timely piece and do recommend it to every serious minded Christian willing to have a quality and productive life here on earth and make heaven seamlessly.

Dr. Mike Omale

Author, Researcher and Pastor

Introduction

Patience is one of the most misunderstood and unwanted but life dependent virtues. It seems to be misunderstood not only amongst the Christian faith but amongst all humans across the 21st century globe. In today’s age, we have gone far beyond the jet age, we have added to it, computer and further more information networking. Man is always in a hurry, so much in the race that we find it difficult to wait and observe the little things that matter. We don’t want to wait, we are in haste. What a rat race‼

Today, we hardly read through drug prescriptions, manufacturers’ guides and manuals, terms and conditions. That is why we struggle; end up in trouble, court cases, prisons, debts, preventable diseases and allergies, painful divorces, break of trusts and friendships, hopelessness, abortion of long dreams and eternal damnation amongst a hosts of others.

Life is worth living if lived in patient principles. It takes patience to understand this life. It takes understanding to live life successfully. How do you understand life, who you are, your call in life, your helpers, your gifts and talents, how and when to use them if you are not patient to learn? Patience is learning in process. Patience is more of an attitude as well as ability than mere waiting. The attitude you put on when in a fix. It takes patience to know your opportunities, prepare for it adequately and strike at the right time when the chances of missing are lowest.

And if you don’t learn to be patient now, you will be patient to learn when it’s too late. But that’s not going to be your portion because you are in the right place now. Grab your seat belt as we journey together to learn the principles of patience.

What is Patience?

What is patience? According to Merriam Webster’s Thesaurus, Patience is the capacity to endure what is difficult or disagreeable without complaining. The Holy Bible provides, further, a deeper meaning to it. In the scriptures, the word patience appears at least, 33 times with similar words appearing not less than 257 times. This makes this important word appear more than two hundred and ninety times across the Holy writ.

Let’s see a collection of the glorious scriptures on patience as the Holy Spirit will grant us understanding;

Luke 21 verse 19: By YOUR PATIENT ENDURANCE you will gain your souls…

Colosians1 verse 11, 12:  ..being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that YOU MAY HAVE FULL ENDURANCE AND PATIENCE, AND JOYFULLY 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you cto share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.

Hebrews6 verse 12: Then you will not be sluggish, but will imitate those who through faith AND PATIENCE INHERIT what has been promised.

Hebrews 10 verse 36: YOU NEED TO PERSEVERE, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised

James 1 verse 4 ALLOW PERSEVERANCE TO FINISH ITS WORK, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

Patience is therefore, the rugged ability to wait in service through difficult times to attain desired goals and perfection without losing hope or giving up. These goals must be scriptural. These are the promises made by God who cannot die nor lie nor be limited to any human weakness. God is supreme but works by His principles throughout scriptures. His promises cannot fail but are yes and Amen (2 Corinthians 1:20).

He empowers or en-graces us with the capacity of patience to endure the buildup process so as to become what He intends us to be.

Furthermore, let’s see some other meanings to patience.

Endurance or Perseverance.

You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who PERSEVERES to the end will be saved (Mark 13: 13).

Thou therefore ENDURE hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ (2Timothy 2: 3 KJV).

It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, ENDURES ALL THINGS (2Corrinthians 13:7)

Itis the ability to bear all things to the end. Some may be able to bear a little. Some may endure heavy distresses but only for a short time (Mark 4:17). However, patience is the ability to endure all things to the end. You keep enduring the rigors, the persecution, and the trials till the end. At the end, the objective will be obtained and the patience will be justified.

Longsuffering or Loving Devotion

This is simply the ability to commit to suffer for a long time for a given course you love. Patience is longsuffering. This bears a deeper expression of patience than endurance. The person here needs not only to endure discomfort but has to really suffer; and suffer for long. Someone may say God forbid‼ That’s not for me‼

Again, consider what the Bible says about longsuffering.

The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, (Exodus 34:6 KJV)

Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance? (Romans2: 4)

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, (Galatians 5:22)