Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Learning Patience

The fountain of life flows from you.
    Your light lets us see light.

Psalm 36:9

"If you want to work with Me, you have to accept My time frame. Hurry is not in my nature." 

I love this line from my devotional this morning. I needed that! I always need reminders about patience, God timing, and understanding. I find such comfort in them. 

God says that He wants to work together with us to create our dreams. He wants to make them come true but we need to trust His timing. 

My soon-to-be sissy-in-law gave me a pendent necklace on my last birthday. It reads, "Faith in God includes faith in His timing." I love that! I wear it as a reminder that I can't do one without the other. If I'm trusting in God, I'm agreeing to have patience and trust in His timing. 

The Lord came back to visit Sarah as he said he would, and he kept his promise to her. At exactly the time God said it would happen, Sarah became pregnant and gave birth to a son for Abraham in his old age. Abraham named his son Isaac. Abraham did what God commanded and circumcised Isaac when he was eight days old.Abraham was 100 years old when his son Isaac was born. Sarah said, “God has made me happy, and everyone who hears about this will be happy with me. No one thought that I, Sarah, would be able to have Abraham’s child. But I have given Abraham a son, even though he is old.” Genesis 21:1-7
Faith is what makes real the things we hope for. It is proof of what we cannot see. Hebrews 11:1 

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