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God Says Wait

Our lives are to be characterized by patience

Few people, including Christians, have the quality of patience. We all pretty much want what we want, and we want it now! We don’t like waiting in lines or getting caught in traffic. Even with mail order shopping we expect our orders to be shipped today and, “oh sure, I’ll pay for overnight shipping for tomorrow’s before ten o’clock delivery.”  Our world today is based on instant gratification, no waiting! Yet, God wants us to exercise patience; because it helps us to develop the mature, stable character God wants to produce in His people.

How do you define patience? It is the ability to absorb strain and stress without complaining, without wavering in actions or thoughts in spite of obstacles, failures or delays. It is the ability to recognize we can’t control everything in our lives. Patience understands many things are beyond our control. To be patient is accepting this fact without allowing ourselves to become discouraged or diverted from the achievement of the goals we set for ourselves. God will allow us to have difficulties. He will even allow us to experience trials, inconveniences, and yes, even to suffer for a specific purpose of His. Patience; it’s a lesson learned hard for many of us, but we can learn to have it.

As we learn to recognize these trials as being advantageous to our character-building, that they are beneficial to us, the stage is then set for us to develop patience. It is then the Holy Spirit will produce the fruit of patience in us.

With our greater patience, it is easier for us to submit our will to God’s sovereignty and to acknowledge He knows all things and determines all timing. God says wait; wait for Him.




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