Patience

Only have patience,

and all things will come right;

God doesn't allow us to put them right.

We cannot put them right if we would; it is impossible.

Christ will do it for us -

Brother Robert Roberts

...Never mind other people.

Wherever their influence is calculated to dishearten and discourage -

forbear - endure;

mix kindness with resolution; this is God's will.

We ought not take notice of everything;

we ought not speak of every weakness we see,

because the flesh is a weak thing at best.

Let things slide, unless there is a breach compromising the authority of Christ,

or dishonoring and weakening of the Truth.

Where a man openly disobeys Christ, or corrupts the faith,

that would be a thing to take notice of;

a thing that we could not countenance, and be guiltless...

There are many derelictions of duty-

oversights, faults, offences,

it may be - that God is pleased to pass by, at our request through Christ;

and we have to cultivate a similar disposition toward those who err through weakness.

Be kindly and forbearing to everybody but yourself.

Judge yourself by the highest standard.

Allow no excuse for your own deficiency.

Ever afflict your soul and press higher...

Brother Robert Roberts

The Ambassador of the Coming Age 1868

"Let your patience and gentleness be known to all men."

in character

is an essential ingredient of peace of mind.

We are apt to think of patience and gentleness as virtues practiced for the sake of others,

but actually they have an even greater and more basic value to ourselves.

They are part of the invincible armament of internal peace.

They make and keep peace within ourselves even more effectively than they contribute to peace of others.

We cannot have peace unless we develop gentleness and patience.

Brother Gilbert V Growcott

“Why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things that I say?”

We ought not to bully friend or foe:

we ought not indulge in the harsh expletives of the natural man:

we ought not to backbite with the tongue:

we ought not retaliate in word or deed.

We ought not to cultivate the use or custody of “carnal weapons”.

The knowledge of Christ without the spirit of Christ is worse than the ignorance, which alienates from the life of God.

Brother Robert Roberts