Breathing the air of loneliness and despair
Existing in the darkness of chaos and torture
Until He let you Jesus come in to brighten his life
Lifting him out of his barren place to popularity
You have filled him up with heavenly grace
All his depths transformed from emptiness
Into the power of integrity filled with love and joy
Burdened by pain he wobble under the load
In pebbles of trials circles going backward
His silence with tears rippling on his life's pond
Before his troubled soul I behold a lamp of love
Instructed young in the faith hide him in Your heart again
The radiance of the King who forgive him in torment cease
Guide his steps to Your place of rest and make him happy
"You will keep him in perfect peace.. because he trusts in You"
Author notes
For my angelic patient husband with the most wonderful voice of the world. Je connais les yeux de ton coeur. Les lignes de ton visage que j'aime tant. Mon grand amour pour toi est un eternel recommencement. Le visage cache dans ton cou je suis muette devant tant de beaute et de talents. J'taime c'est comme ca. Becs XX
Isa. 26: 3
The word patience hold a significant ancient concept in the hebrew scriptures. It translates "longsuffering" (Ex. 34: 6) to indicate patience. Some Bible versions use the expression "slow to anger". In other translations the word weary is rendered "try the patience of". The ancient israelites had a way of doing that with God. Patience means keeping your anger in check for a long time, enduring hardship for a long time, waiting a long time for goodness, truth, and righteousness to prevail and striving a long time to reach perfection. The reference point is one apply to patience regarding things and circumstances; the other relates to patience in reference to people.
We can't do anything directly about many of the matters that try our patience. They're mostly beyond our power to manipulate or control as God can. But God does practice great patience toward people not because He can't compel us to do His will but because He lovingly respects the will of those He has made in His own likeness. God patiently waits for us to voluntarily respond to the leading of His Holy Spirit. He does not twist any arm. "Jehovah is not slow respecting His promise as some people consider slowness but he is patient with you because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance" (2 Pet. 3: 9; I Thim. 1: 15-16; 2 Thim. 3: 10, 11)
Patience indicates that longsuffering with people is associated with an attitude of humility, humbly patient (Ja. 3: 17) It means also waiting on God in times of deep trouble and carry an attitude of faith that God is in control
always. Patience at its heart is faith in the existence, the compassion and the promises of God. Faithful patience waiting for God determined to persevere and endure to the end because Jehovah is there and He is good. Endurance and perseverance reflect 2 realities about patience. The apostle Paul was an example (Acts. 16) True patience is anchored in hope (Heb. 12: 1, 2; 6: 10-20) Patience is not a desperate waiting in doubt but a hopeful waiting in confidence, a restoration of all things (Acts. 3: 19-21) Patience is a fruit of the spirit after longsuffering (Gal. 5: 22, 23) God lovingkindness is always ready to forgive and commit to justice (Rom. 12: 9-16; Col. 1: 9-12; I Thim. 6: 10, 11; Titus 2: 1, 2)
I Corinthians 13 considered in length descriptions of love and patience "love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity but rejoice in the truth; bears all thhings believes all things hopes all things patiently endures all things. Love nerver fails." (v. 4-8)
Patience is the behavioral way to say "I love you".
