Be Patient
September 26, 2010
"Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts:
for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh."
Many of us have been looking for the return of the Lord Jesus
for a long time. This writer has kept a simple little plaque on
his office wall for over 50 years. It reads: "Perhaps today,"
and serves as a daily reminder that today might indeed be
the day when He comes again. We do long for His appearing,
and as things seem to grow worse in the world year by year,
it is easy to become impatient--or perhaps even despondent-
-when He doesn't come.
Yet day by day "the coming of the Lord draweth nigh!" as our
text teaches. "For ye have need of patience, that, after ye
have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For
yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will
Even the first-century Christians had to learn patience as they
also anxiously were awaiting Christ's return to deliver them out
of their tribulations--tribulations which were so great they
seemed to fit "end-time prophecies."
await His second coming. "Blessed is that servant, whom his
rather than hoping the Lord will come quickly to free us from
our tribulations, we should "count it all joy when fall into divers
temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of faith worketh
who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and
"be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and
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