Title: Long-suffering
Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us… – Hebrews 12:1c
What an example we have in Joseph and his story in the Old Testament. Talk about long-suffering. I am not sure I can even comprehend what long-suffering looks like, not like what Joseph went through. Most of the troubles today pass reasonably quickly if you wait it out. But Josephs’s race was a long one. But he stayed the course and kept his faith. He knew God had a plan for him even though he was sold, taken to a foreign land, accused, and imprisoned, all happening throughout his life.
Like Joseph, we need to rest in the fact that God has a plan and purpose for us, even through times of suffering, long or short.
Real men show grit in troubled times.
