God's Patience Introduced

In the salvation of the apostle Paul, we should understand that there was a perfect exercise of ‎patience in God, concerning His allowing Paul to continue on in his sin, through all of the ‎persecutions and blasphemies, and violent agressions that Saul (his formerly used name) ‎committed, waiting until just the right time to strike him down with the blinding light of His glory, ‎and then conjointly working in his heart so that he was immediately converted. In God’s waiting all ‎of those years, He was showing forth a pattern of long-suffering to those who are going to believe on ‎Christ. He, the Lord of glory, the One who has been given all authority in heaven and earth, was ‎patient with him. ‎