Life Is Hard For Most People


"Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one 
another in love." Ephesians 4:2.


We should train ourselves to such regard, to such respect for others, 
that we shall never hurt the heart of one of God's creatures, even by 
a disdainful look!

Our love ought also to be patient. Our neighbor may have his 
faults--but we are taught to bear with one another's infirmities. If 
we knew the story of men's lives, the hidden loads and burdens which 
they are often carrying, the unhealed sore in their heart--we would 
have most gentle patience with them. Life is hard for most people; 
certainly hard enough without our adding to its burdens by our 
censoriousness, our unkindness, our jeering and contempt.

"Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe 
yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and 
patience." Colossians 3:12.