“The Patient Endurance of the Saints”

Luke 21:5-19

Three things are connected in the “eschatology vision” of Jesus: Human longing (for another world), God’s judgment (making all things right), and the patient endurance of the saints. The wellspring of life that gives us unspeakable joy is the same life that sustains us in all kinds of suffering; and it's the same self-sacrificing love of Christ. “Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things” (1 Cor. 13:7).  For “the joy that was set before him [Jesus] endured the cross” (Heb. 12:2). We are also called to patient endurance that God would reveal himself to a wanting world.