Longsuffering: Growing Through Struggle

Longsuffering: Growing Through Struggle

Longsuffering is a Fruit of the Spirit many of us want to avoid. Quite honestly, who really wants to endure the difficulties of life like losing a loved one, being downsized, experiencing a health scare, being evicted, or not being able to make ends meet? Not me. But God uses seasons of longsuffering to build our patience, faith, and trust in Him. He also uses those trials to reveal Himself to us in miraculous ways.

"Living the Fruit of the Spirit" Summer Series

"Living the Fruit of the Spirit" Summer Series

The Apostle Paul addressed Spirit versus fleshly living in a letter to the Galatians. In his epistle, he explains that the Spirit and the flesh are “in conflict” with one another (Galatians 5:17), and encourages the people of Galatia to deny the flesh by “liv[ing] by the Spirit” (Galatians 5:16).