July 17, 2025 4:00 am
God's long-suffering is an attribute that helps build hope within believers, and it is modeled by His patience and willingness to wait for us to come to repentance. Cultivating this quality involves acknowledging a knowledge higher than our own and waiting on the Lord, trusting in His process to grow us closer to His likeness every day.
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Welcome to the Days of Praise podcast, a daily devotional by the Institute for Creation Research. Dealing with Delay. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness, but is long suffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Second Peter three nine. Long-suffering is an attribute of God that is often mentioned in Scripture.
It is not one of the easier attributes that we would like to acquire in our efforts to be Christ-like. We would much prefer to be blessed with love, joy, or even peace. But there it is, right in the middle of the fruit of the Spirit list: long suffering. God does not expect something of us he has not himself modeled. Before the great flood, God was long-suffering while the Ark was being built.
1 Peter 3.20. During the Exodus from Egypt, God's long-suffering was tested by the discontented children of Israel. In the wilderness, they tested him to the point that he considered doing away with them and starting over with a new group of people. Long suffering helps build hope within a believer. We glory in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope, and hope maketh not ashamed.
How do we cultivate this quality of long-suffering? First, acknowledge a knowledge higher than our own. Then wait on the Lord. God would not have us suffer for no good reason. There is a goal in mind to grow us closer to his likeness every day.
Let's learn from the examples set forth in Scripture and not be stiff-necked, but have faith in God's process. Henceforth, there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day, and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. 2 Timothy 4:8. Stay the course and rejoice. It's getting closer every day.
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