Strengthened
Yesterday we had a meditation in connection with Colossians 1:10. Today we will notice the verse that follows.
“Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness” (Colossians 1:11).
God will strengthen us, poor weak, feeble people that we are, to all patience, and that is what we all need. We are often weary, the road seems long, and we need patience.
You are never to be impatient. You may say, I have a bad temper, and can’t help it. The Lord is the great One, the only One, to cure bad tempers. Christ never had one, and Christians are to live for Christ. Sometimes instead of being strengthened to longsuffering with joyfulness, we are apt to be short-suffering with grumbling.
If we are strengthened unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness, we will rise above the trials of the way. Christ’s power keeps the soul strong throughout the trouble. We have to live where the Lord puts us. May we live more and more like Him here, till we are fully like Him, there — in heaven.
