1. Taking The Long View WHY DO YOU SERVE GOD?
Is It For The Short-Term Temporal Benefits, Or Something More Involved?
Satan accused Job before God, that the only reason he served God was for the benefits at the present time
Job 1:9; Job 1:10-2:10
Taking The Long View
“And let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we shall reap if we do not grow weary.”
Galatians 6:9

2. PATIENCE MUST BE LEARNED James 5:10-11 Job was noted for his
extreme patience and
willingness to endure
Life does press in on us, and it is all too easy to simply surrender
The patient person is one who takes the “long view”
Hebrews 6:11-12
Hebrews 10:35-36
“By your patience possess your soul.” Luke 21:19

3. Develop A Mind Set Like That Of A Farmer…
Ecclesiastes 11:6
Farmer Trusts In The Process: Planting, Reaping…
Process Doesn’t Fail
GOD Doesn’t Fail
2Tim. 2:10-12
Romans 8:31ff
Patience
Long View

4. “The race is not always to the swift…” Ecclesiastes 9:11
Tortoise & The Hare
Patience, Perseverance:
Take The Long View
Revelation 2:7, 11, 17
Revelation 3:5, 12, 21
2Peter 3:9
God Wants Only
The Best For
Each One…
Something Better
Is Waiting
HEAVEN
2Cor. 4:17

5. “Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead. I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
(Philippians 3:13b-14)
Take The
Long View