Weekend Message for August 29, 2021 - Kostenloses Hörbuch

Relearning Patience

How’s your patience?

With all that has been happening, a lot of people, patience is showing itself as pretty thin. Patience is the fruit of the Spirit that God plants in us and then we cooperate in its growth.

We are warned by some "do not pray for patience." I think this is terrible advice. It assumes God is a sadistic being who will throw all kinds of problems on you just because you sought to reflect an attribute of his love.

In case you failed to notice we, all have plenty of problems even when we don’t pray for patience. There are a lot of people I know who have gone through terrible trials and they are less patient from the experience. I think we need to pray for patience more than ever.

My friend, patience is a work of grace that you can only grow in as you cling to Christ. In this world, you will have tribulations! It is up to us how we deal with them and if we grow in love or shrink into despair and bitterness.

I think we all better learn about patience because it looks like life is about to give us a great chance to practice. This weekend the message will be “Relearning Patience.”