The fruit of long-suffering boosts our resilience, faith, forbearance, patience, and tolerance. It gives the power to pull through every odd situation and the grace not to give up. In selecting the best athletes, besides skills and talents, you look out for those with stamina, endurance, tenacity, stability and willpower to the final stage. Long-suffering makes you last the test of time with every push, no matter what. People with long-suffering are not quitters. We must run to finish successfully against the competing strides of pressure from the world and sin. There is a medal to win at the end, the crown of righteousness when Jesus appears. Pray for God's grace to be strong, stable, and tenacious. We pray to endure to the end.