Add to “Temperance Patience”

Add to “Temperance Patience”

2 Peter 1:6

                Patience is a choice. This is another choice that Peter tells us to add. Add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience. Patience is the suffering of afflictions, pain, toil, calamity, provocation, or other evil, with a calm, unruffled temper; endurance without murmuring or fretfulness. Patience comes from a Christian submission to the divine will.

• [Rom.5:1-2] “hope of the glory of God” Patience to have faith in justification, peace, and the access to his grace.
• [Gal.5:5] “hope of righteousness” Jesus Christ’s righteousness is accounted to me for my salvation, Patience is needed to  hope to be righteous someday. For now I have help through the Spirit of God to stay as righteous as this old flesh can be.[Gal.2:20] [Rom.7:18-19]
• [Col.1:23] “hope of the gospel” Patience is needed to keep faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ.