in much patience

"'Ministers of God, in much patience.'--Paul says as he begins the list of trials. Sometimes we are, in our weakness, overwhelmingly impressed with the fact that patience is our primary problem--learning first to hold back all the surging natural reactions--learning to calmly and quietly analyze both self and the circumstances of the moment. Patience here is not so much just the first item of a list, but rather the basic approach to all the trials that follow. 'MUCH patience,' he says: meeting whatever comes with cheerfulness, meekness, and godly self-control."