Patience of Jesus by H. N. Powers

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 18, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 11.

Patience of Jesus

By H. N. Powers

THEN, too, His patience—reaching on and on in its long-suffering amplitude, waiting and never weary, hopeful and never despairing of conquering the soul! No wonder the “patience of Christ” became the apostolic formulary of moral loveliness. What a power was in it! Here is a nature made suspicious by manifold deceits, stranded on the shoals of doubt, desponding, obstinate, wedded to sin. Does the Master crush it by imperious authority, exasperate it by taunts, fling it aside as a cumberer of the ground? Ah, give it time to recover, opportunities to know itself, nurse it by gentleness, gain its confidence, find the secret of its weakness and sorrow. Do not despair. It may bear fruit next year. O, this infinite patience of Jesus, how it rebukes our cynical criticisms and passionate haste! How it bids us take note of temperaments, troubles, habits, provocations, prejudices, in our judgments of men!—H. N. Powers.