Patience is a grace made and cut out for suffering; patience is a sweet submission to the will of God, whereby we are content to bear anything that He is pleased to lay upon us. Patience makes a Christian invincible; it is like the anvil that bears all strokes. We cannot be men without patience. Passion does unman a man; it puts him beside the use of reason. We cannot be martyrs without patience; patience makes us endure (James 5:10).
Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says--'I cannot stand anymore.' God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.