Covenant Reformed News – March 2017 • Volume XVI, Issue 11
This article from Covenant Reformed News explores the biblical virtue of longsuffering as a communicable attribute of God and a key fruit of the Spirit, drawing on passages from Galatians, 1 Corinthians, Colossians, and Proverbs. The author examines how believers are called to cultivate patience and emotional restraint through God's grace, demonstrating spiritual maturity and the indwelling peace of the Holy Spirit. The resource offers practical theological reflection on Christian character development rooted in Reformed biblical interpretation.
Our Calling to Be Longsuffering As God’s elect, redeemed and regenerated people, we are called to reflect our heavenly Father’s communicable attributes, including His longsuffering to us. By His grace, we do this! Longsuffering is included as the fourth virtue in the ninefold fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5: “love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law” (22-23). In I Corinthians 13, the greatest biblical chapter on...