Patience is essential to our salvation. The Bible says that hope is needed to be patience. For Christians it is our hope in Jesus Christ that brings patience. If we have no hope, we have no need for patience. Patience is also closely aligned with love as well as hope. Love is full of patience and hope. Just as God is a God of love, He desires for us to love Him as well as others. With God being a God of love, He is also patient. God is patiently waiting on us to come around to His way of thinking. Patience is essential to our salvation. Once we accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, patience is required to enable us to maintain our hope in God's promises and to keep Jesus as the Lord of our lives. See below for more commentary and Biblical advice on the virtue of patience.
The Bible Says That Hope is Needed To Be Patience
If you have no hope, you will not have any patience. This is self-evident in that if you have no hope or purpose, why wait? Why suffer? Just give up. Romans 8:25 advises us that patience comes only for us hoping in things not seen ...
The Bible says that both hope and patience are needed to have either one be of any use to anyone. If you have no hope, you will not have any patience. This is self-evident in that if you have no hope or purpose, why wait? Why suffer? Just give up.
On the other hand, the Bible is based on hope. Patience is needed so that hope can be fulfilled in our lives. The hope described in the Bible is our faith in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. If we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we will be saved and have eternal life. This is Christian hope.
Now Christian salvation comes in two parts. The first part consists of accepting salvation as a free gift from God in the form of Jesus Christ. This is an one-time event. The second part of Christian salvation, is a process called sanctification. This is where a person freely accepts Jesus Christ as the Lord over their life. This sanctification process is where patience is needed everyday to enable Jesus to be the Lord over a person's life. A Christian may suffer persecution and temptation everyday, but with patience Christians can continue to yield to the Lord Jesus Christ and in the end they will receive eternal life. Patience enables Christians to maintain their hope. If there is no patience, there is no hope Romans 8:24-25, "For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it").
The Bible Says True Love Is Patient.
True love is patient because it bears through any circumstances and never changes. Circumstances can change, people can change, but true love never changes. No matter what the adversity, true love can bear it. 1Corinthians 13:7 advises us that love, hope, and patience are intertwined.
The Bible says that true love requires patience. True love is patient because it bears through any circumstances and never changes. Circumstances can change, people can change, but true love never changes. No matter what the adversity, true love can bear it. True love is patient because it has hope that transcends any circumstances. True love can wait on the circumstances because true love will not change. True love believes that the relationship between two persons is stronger than any circumstances. In the Bible 1 Corinthians 13:7 says, "Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things"). True love is able to be patience and endure all things because true love believes and hopes in things greater than the circumstances.
The Bible Says That Patience is a Characteristic of God.
Many of us have heard the expression that "I am waiting on God", but it is really the other way round. God is waiting on us to come around to His kind of thinking. God loves us and has made many promises to mankind. He desires to bless us. 2Peter 3:9 advises us that God is patiently waiting for us to repent and come back to Him.
The Bible says that God is a patient God. Many of us have heard the expression that "I am waiting on God", but it is really the other way round. God is waiting on us to come around to His kind of thinking. God loves us and has made many promises to mankind. He desires to bless us. He does not forget His promises as a man might forget. He can fulfill all of His promises where a person may have good intentions, but is unable to fulfill their promises. God loves us and He has created mankind for His purposes. He desires for us to love Him and turn away from our sinful disobedience. God is waiting on us, all of mankind to come to repentance. He has shown His patience with Israel in the Old Testament and now with all of us in this day and age. He has sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to save us from our sin and disobedience. All we have to do is repent and accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. God is a patient God that patiently and lovely waits on us to repent and accept the salvation of our Lord Jesus Christ 2 Peter 3:9 "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance").
The Bible Says That Patience is needed To Be Saved.
The Bible has a lot to say about patience. Patience is a lot more than just a nice-to-have virtue. It is essential to your salvation. Once you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, patience is required to enable us to maintain our hope in God's promises and to keep Jesus as the Lord of our lives. Luke 21:19 advises us that patience is the key to our salvation.
The Bible has a lot to say about patience. Patience is a lot more than just a nice-to-have virtue. It is essential to your salvation. Once you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, patience (long-suffering) becomes one of the fruits (fruit of the Spirit Galatians 5:22-23) of your salvation and a necessary virtue to obtain the ultimate prize, eternal life. Yes, salvation is a free gift offered to everyone. All we need to do is accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Accepting Jesus as our Savior takes no patience from us. It is AFTER we accept the free gift of salvation that we require patience as we begin to be "set aside" (sanctified) by God. Patience is required to enable us to maintain our hope in God's promises and to keep Jesus as the Lord of our lives. Through Jesus' free gift and our patience we obtain eternal life. Patience keeps our soul in harmony with God. It enables us to go through the sanctification process of being saved until we obtain God's promise of eternal life. If we maintain patience, we maintain hope, we stay under God's protective covering, and we keep our souls "set aside" for God (Luke 21:18-19, "But there shall not an hair of your head perish. In your patience possess ye your souls").
