A man or woman Exercising Patience cannot be moved, if they have allowed Patience to process their souls.

“Let Patience have her perfect work that you may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”–James 1:4

Patience is the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting upset.

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.“–Carl Jung


“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.“–Napoleon Hill

Exercising Patience will be delivered in degrees and is:

1.  Commended
“Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.  Be not hasty in your spirit to be angry; for anger rests in the bosom of fools.”–Ecclesiastes 7:8-9

2.  Should Be Exercised Daily.

“Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who carries out wicked schemes.”–Psalm 37:7

In order to exercise patience, we must go through some things.  It is in the going through that we learn patience.

3.  Is a Fruit of Tribulation.

“And not only so, but we glory in (let us rejoice in our) tribulations also; knowing that tribulation works patience; and patience experience (probation); and experience hope.”–Romans 5:3-4

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.“–Jean-Jacques Rousseau

One of the by-products of Tribulation is “Patience.”

Strong’s Concordance tells us that the word translated “patience” means “cheerful (or hopeful) endurance, constancy.”  Therefore, exercising patience will bring us cheerfulness.

When it comes to exercising our patience it is good for us to realize that our “Joy” may come by way of “Fire.”

“Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.“–William Penn

No Sinking Through A Rock

An old Welsh lady,
when she lay dying,
was visited by her Minister.

“Sister, are you sinking?” he asked.
She answered him not a word,
but looked at him
with incredulous eye.

He repeated the question!
“Sister, are you sinking?”

She looked at him again,
as she could not believe
he would ask such a question.

At last, Rising a little
in her bed, she answered,
“Sinking! Sinking!
Did you ever know a sinner
to sink through a rock?

If I had been standing on the sand,
I might sink; but, thank God,
I am on the “Rock of Ages,”
and there is no sinking there.
C. H. Spurgeon

When standing on the Rock of Ages and Exercising Patience you will never be moved and possess your soul through any amount of Tribulation, thereby receiving cheerfulness from the joy of endurance and constancy.

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