The Call on the Christian Life Is Patience

The call on the Christian life is patience. Patience is not checking out, it's not some disposition towards fate or fatalism. It's a trusting in God. It's praying. It's crying out. It's relying upon. It's confessing sin. And then patience is, of course, both practiced towards God and towards the other person, which requires love. He says, with patience, bearing with one another in love. You see, love is burden bearing. Love can be driven by comfort, by fittingness. When in reality, those are seasons of love towards one another. We don't even love each other like Jesus tells us to love our enemies,. If we