We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers, remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father, knowing, beloved brethren, your election by God.
1 Thessalonians 1:2-5
As I was studying the book of 1 Thessalonians not too long ago, the Holy Spirit showed me something I had not seen before, and that is the relationship between patience and hope. As I read through this passage, it dawned on me so clearly that it takes patience when you are hoping for something, and it takes hope to be patient; they really are linked together.
For those of you in college, most of you are there in hopes of receiving a diploma. But before you will receive that diploma it will take years of patiently taking classes, doing homework, writing papers, and attending lectures. If you lose that hope of one day receiving a diploma, you will no longer patiently endure the work that is needed to achieve the diploma. In a similar manner, if you lose the patience to attend the lectures, write the papers, and do the homework, you will have no hope of receiving that diploma.
Hope provides the reason to be patient and patience is that pathway whereby we achieve hope. These two words, patience and hope, are linked together and by them we are able to triumph and walk victoriously, as hope is the anchor to our soul and patience has its perfect work in us. So today if you are losing patience, get your eyes focused back on your hope. Or if you have lost a bit of hope, remember that patience is needed to reach that hope.
This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast (Hebrews 6:19a).
My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing (James 1:2-4).
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