The lecture speaks about the quality of endurance and that God has endured everything with a wide heart. The speaker affirms that the wide heart can forgive insult, neglect, doubt, weakness and flight, while the narrow heart suffers from the slightest word or situation.

Biblical and behavioral examples

The Holy Bible is cited: Christ endured the weakness of the righteous and the injustice of the wicked, and bore the sins of the repentant. Peter, Thomas, Mary Magdalene and the disciples are mentioned with their fleeing and doubts as manifestations God endured. Also examples of David, Abraham and Joseph are given who endured trials, rejection and injustice and then the Lord honored them after their repentance or accounting.

Spiritual and practical dimension

Endurance is not a beginning to continue in sin; rather it is the Lord’s readiness to accept the repentant. A person must make his heart wide with love, humility and wisdom to endure people, trials and waiting. The wide heart adapts to circumstances, does not get upset quickly, and waits for God’s wisdom with patience.

Practical advice for forming the heart

The speaker calls to read the lives of the saints to learn the spirit of endurance, to struggle with the nerves, not to provoke wrath, to learn forgiveness and not to pick at others’ faults. He explains that the big heart justifies and lets many matters pass while the narrow heart stores the hurt and remembers it for long.

Spiritual conclusion

The spiritual traveler is invited to hone his heart: not to be upset by insults or waiting or differences in people’s natures, but to preserve calm nerves and strength of soul, because God’s love, humility and wisdom teach us to endure others as He endured us.

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