Job 6:8–10 (ESV) — 8 “Oh that I might have my request, and that God would fulfill my hope, 9 that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off! 10 This would be my comfort; I would even exult in pain unsparing, for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

Job 6:11 (ESV) — 11 What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient?

Psalm 73:26 (ESV) — 26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Deuteronomy 7:9 (ESV) — 9 Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations….

1 Samuel 30:1–6 (ESV) —3 And when David and his men came to the city [their city}, they found it burned with fire, and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive. 4 Then David and the people who were with him raised their voices and wept until they had no more strength to weep…. And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because all the people were bitter in soul, each for his sons and daughters.

John 14:15–17 (ESV) — 15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

Romans 8:28 (ESV) — 28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. First of all, our end is the promise of good. God Himself promising good out of that difficult situation for our lives.

2 Corinthians 4:17–18, (ESV). “For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.”

We all want this pandemic to be over. But normal life also brings us difficult situations and relational problems. Where do we find the patience to endure?