May 26. Strength to weight with patience. May you be strengthened with all power according to

His glorious light for all endurance and patience with joy. Colossians 11. Strangland is the

right word. The Apostle Paul prayed for the church at Colossi that they would be strengthened

with all power according to His glorious light for all endurance and patience. Colossians 11. Patience

is the evidence of an inner strength. Impatient people are weak and therefore dependent on external

supports like schedules that go just right and circumstances that support their fragile hearts.

Their outbursts of oaths and threats and harsh criticisms of the culprits who cross their plans

do not sound weak but that noise is all a camouflage of weakness. Patience demands tremendous

inner strength. For the Christian, this strength comes from God. That is why Paul is praying for

the Colossians. He's asking God to empower them for the patient endurance that the Christian life

requires. But when he says that the strength of patience is according to God's glorious might,

he doesn't just mean that it takes divine power to make a person patient. He means that

face in this glorious might is the channel through which the power for patience comes. Patience

is indeed a fruit of the Holy Spirit, Galatians 5.22, but the Holy Spirit empowers with all His

fruit through hearing with face Galatians 3.5. Therefore, Paul is praying that God would connect us

with the glorious might that empowers patience and that connection is face.