Well, this morning started off just grand. For some reason or another, my grumpiness decided to kick in at full force. I have been fighting it off for some time now. Nothing could go right this morning, not my clothes, not my hair, not my drive to work. So (go figure) that I would hit traffic. I can not stand to be in traffic. All I see is a ton of cars and all of them with there brake lights on. This is just great!! Did I mention that I don't have a lot of patience? I don't have patience for anything really. When I want something, I want it right then and there. I wanted to be at work. I didn't want to sit in traffic and wait. I tend to have little patience when things do not go my way. I'm being honest here. This is something that God is working on in me. I have little patience for people that ask me the same question over and over again, mainly grandparents (okay, I realize it's not there fault). Don't get me wrong? --I'm not rude, but it kills me inside. Living in a day where everything is fast forward, and it takes only seconds to get your requests, how do you have any patience? I am struggling with this. Which brings me to what the Lord decided to tell me as I was in traffic. Patience is a virtue (uh yeah, that I don't have). I felt him telling me that I need to be patient. See, I get kind of excited quickly and will jump to do to many things at once, but he is saying "wait on me," be patient. By showing me how impatient I am in the little things (in life) how can he trust me with bigger things. If I get so irritated because of traffic, how can I sustain the things for which he wants to bless me. I must have patience and wait on him. Here are a few scriptures relating to patience.
For you have need of steadfast patience and endurance, so that you may perform and fully accomplish the will of God, and thus receive and carry away [and enjoy to the full] what is promised. Hebrews 10:36
I waited patiently and expectantly for the Lord; and He inclined to me and heard my cry Psalms 40:1
Be assured and understand that the trial and proving of your faith bring out endurance and steadfastness and patience. James 1:3
But if we hope for what is still unseen by us, we wait for it with patience and composure. Romans 8:25
With Love,
Crys
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I love this, because not only are you being honest about the challenges we all face or have faced with being patient...but you're giving the Word so that we can be transformed by the renewing of our minds.
Thank you!!
Love you...
It's amazing how impatient we can be with ppl.,a long line in the store and oh yeah lets not forget traffic. But can we imagine how patient God is with us, after he has told us repeatedly dont do that, dont say that, dont go there, and yet we do anyways..
He is so patient with us, and thats why he wants us to reflect him in this quality of having patience, I love James when it said our faith is being proved genuine as we wait patiently for the Lord
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