Let us run with patience (Heb. 12:1) To run with patience is a very difficult thing. Running is apt to suggest the absence of patience, the eagerness to reach the goal. We commonly associate patience with lying down or waiting. There is a patience which is harder--the patience that runs. To lie down in the time of grief, to be quiet under the stroke of adverse fortune, implies a great strength; but something else implies a strength greater still: The power to work after a setback; to have a great weight at your heart and still to run; to have a deep anguish in your spirit and still perform daily tasks. This is a Christlike thing! Many of us could tearlessly deal with our grief if we were allowed to do so in private. The hard thing is that most of us are called to exercise our patience, not in bed, but in the street. We are called to cope with our sorrows, not in lethargic quiescence, but in active service--in our workplace, while shopping, during social events, contributing to other peoples joy. No other way of burying our sorrow is as difficult as this, for it is truly what is meant by running with patience.
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 13:49:54 +0000
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