To those who doubt God’s willingness to be patient with them.  Consider your salvation from his perspective, for just a moment.

How long do you expect to live on this earth?  Perhaps 10 to 50 years?  So all you’re asking God to do is be patient with a fool for 10 to 50 years more.  Is that right?

So if he is patient for 50 years more and you do not succeed in obeying  his will you ask only 50 years of God’s patience.  This is no great loss at all for “He who never dies”.  But if by His patience you learn to obey Him, who loses? 

Isn’t this why the Lord Jesus taught us to pray and never give up.  What hope is there for he who gives up?  Yet the potential of winning everything is there to the very last second!