Patience

Patience enables one to endure "until the coming of the Lord." Patience has faith in the future.
Patience makes the disciple a confident spiritual farmer. The seeds having been planted, he waits patiently for the Lord of the Harvest--the controller of the early and late rains--to produce the fruit--forty, sixty, a hundred fold--that will glorify His name.
Patience strengthens the heart. Love grows as the eager anticipation of His soon return gives rest to the soul.
Patience makes a disciple eager to forgive. He knows that the Judge, and only the Judge, can make all things right. And He is standing at the door. All things--all cares--can be left in His loving, wise hands.
Patience knows that suffering identifies one with the Savior--and with those, like the prophets--who shared the truth and left the outcome in the hands of the Sovereign Lord whose Word always accomplishes His purposes.
Patience enables the disciple to submit to the refining fire--to Job-like--trust in "the Lord who is full of compassion and is merciful."
Patience builds within the disciple a deep desire for integrity. A desire to be a man of his word, a man who relies on his Savior to work all things for the good of those who love HIm.
Patience makes a disciple a man of prayer and praise. He knows that the God who only gives good gifts will provide out of the riches of glory. And His provision will always be right on time. And more than he could ask or imagine.

'"And you have need of patience"