The patience to be patient

[shortlady]

THE PATIENCE TO BE PATIENT

Psalms 130

Children want things now: "But I want desert now!" "Are we there yet?" "Now can we open our present?" In contrast, as we get older we learn to wait. Medical students wait through training. Parents wait in hopes that the prodigal will return. We wait for what is worth waiting for, and in the process we learn patience.

God who is timeless, requires of us a mature faith that may involve delays that seem like trials. Patience is the one sign of maturity, a quality that can develop only through the passing of time.

Many prayers in the Bible come out of the act of waiting. Jacob waited 7 years for a wife and then worked 7 more after being tricked by her father (Gen. 29: 15-20). The Israelites waited 4 centuries for deliverance; Moses waited 4 decades for the call to lead them, then 4 more decades for Promised Land he would not enter.

"My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning," wrote the psalmist (Ps. 130:6 NIV). The picture comes to mind of a watchman counting the minutes for his shift to be over.

I pray for the patience to endure times of trial, to keep anticipating, keep hoping, keep believing. I pray for patience to be patient. - Phillip Yancey

GOD SELDOM DOES THINGS IN A HURRY!

 

[Bendito]

Patience=======Constant consistency Constantly.

 

[amadeus2]

"And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;" Rom 5:3

So then perhaps we should pray for more tribulation in order to work more patiently?

 

[Bendito]

"And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;" Rom 5:3

So then perhaps we should pray for more tribulation in order to work more patiently?

LOL I would not go that far.

 

[amadeus2]

LOL I would not go that far.

It is not really necessary to pray for tribulation. I certainly find no where that Job prayed for it, but it certainly did come his way. Was he then more patient after so much was restored to him?

"So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses." Job 42:12

"Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God." Acts 14:22

 

[rag4aCrown]

Perhaps if we understood His LONGSUFFERING for us, We just may understand Patience.

The Lord asked His disciples How long must I suffer thee?

I pray His patience not wear thin. I believe as we continue in faith and push on to reach the mark of our higher calling with repentance of a child's heart, the Lord has patience and mercy, lest we dash our foot upon a rock. Thank you Lord for your love. Amen

 

[rag4aCrown]

LOL I would not go that far.

LOL, amen brother.