Covenant Reformed News – February 2017 • Volume XVI, Issue 10
This devotional article from Covenant Reformed News explores how God's longsuffering toward His people in their suffering is made possible through Jesus Christ, who as both fully God and fully man can empathize with human infirmities. The author draws on Old Testament examples (David and Jeremiah) and Christ's parable of the widow to encourage believers to pray boldly and persistently, trusting in God's compassionate governance even amid oppression and affliction.
God’s Longsuffering and Our Suffering Our covenant God is longsuffering towards His people in their suffering. David confessed this comforting truth in Psalm 86. After telling the Lord about his persecution by the ungodly—“O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them” (14)—David consoles himself with these words: “But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in...