Patience is a virtue...what does that mean? I've heard it so many times in my life but have never really picked it apart.
Patience - quiet, steady perseverance
Virtue - moral excellence; goodness; righteousness
So I guess what it means is when you practice patience you are doing a very good thing?!?
As you may have guessed, today's devotion was about patience. Patience is something that we have all needed at one point in our lives...especially if we've encountered pain and suffering (which yesterday we determined we all had). Patience is that "thing" that we all need, and probably lack at times. It is definitely something that I lack - a lot!
There have been so many moments in my life where patience was no where to be found. I would make a list, but unfortunately it would be too long (and embarrassing). Let's just say, I know that I need to practice more patience, okay? *LOL*
Here's the thing...God promises us that He will grow our patience, but we have to endure hardships in order for it to grow....kinda scary, right? This is hard to handle, I know. I'm struggling with this myself...but, what we need to remember (something that a lot of people forget) is that God is the same!!! yesterday, tomorrow, and forever! He doesn't change...and we do! So this is really hard to remember. Sometimes we think that God is punishing us, or He is "teaching us a lesson" but I don't think so anymore. God is faithful and He is constant. His emotions towards us don't change (which means He wouldn't be "punishing us" or "teaching us a lesson" one day and not the other...get it? I hope I'm making myself clear.
If we can wrap or heads around the fact that WE ARE NOT LIKE GOD!!! We can't understand His thinking, His doing, or His love for us. We just can't...so stop trying! Just no he loves us! That's what matters. We need to trust Him and His doing!
"Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope."
Corazon Aquino
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