We've seen that we should wear compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. The next garment is "bearing with one another" - or TOLERANCE. Tolerance is that beautiful quality of allowing other people to be different from us, even different from what we think they should be, and loving them and appreciating them for who they are. If we wore tolerance to work every day, we wouldn't be upset when people didn't do just what we thought they should do. We'd allow them more room for error. We'd bend over backwards to understand where they're coming from, and to give them more time to grow and learn.
God has to remind me that he deals with each of us individually.Just because He is teaching me one lesson doesn't mean that all my friends have to learn it simultaneously! Tolerance is the garment that allows us to "bear with" others, and it'll look good on you!
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