HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY PATIENCE IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT OF LOVE?
Have you ever wondered why patience is such an important element of love? Patience is a beautiful descriptor of love. It describes a heart with room and with flexibility. In the Bible, the word for patience is sometimes translated as long-suffering, which means it is willing to suffer, willing to bear discomfort, willing to allow time to pass and not demand immediate answers. Patience is the quality of bearing offenses and injuries without anger or revenge. It is impossible to do in our own willpower. I know this from experience. It must come from God, from that "hesed" love. Hesed is one of the Hebrew words used in the Bible for God’s love. "Though the mountains be shaken, and the hills be removed, yet My unfailing love (hesed) for you will not be shaken." ~Isaiah 54:10 "The Lord did not set His love (hashaq) on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples; but because the Lord loves (hes...