Patience (George Michael album) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
When you were reading the last posting on “Joy,” you may have asked, “I don’t always feel joyful?” Well you won’t. That’s because God has you in a “Patience” training phase. Patience is learning to wait.
You started learning patience when you were a baby. You learned that just because you cried, things did not happen right now. You will have to wait to get fed or changed. This continued in family and school. You did not get fed always when you wanted it or recess did not occur when you desired it. And on your job this training continued in the physical world.
Well in the spiritual world, the same training takes place. God will frequently make you wait for things to happen, if they happen at all or in the way you want it to happen. The main reason this occurs is; that God is God of the Whole universe, and His plans must take into consideration what is best for the whole universe, not just you. Since His glory must come first, because He is in charge we must learn to wait for God’s timing.
This will help us learn to trust in His plans for us. We must fully understand; that “No,” and “wait” are also answers. The challenge we face is that both of those answers are usually “No direct answer.” So the only way we can cope is that we learn to trust Him. We need to learn to fully release control of our life to Him, and accept the standard for quality of life: “Let Go and let God.”
We must keep remembering that the worst the world can do is to take our life, but to God that is the best thing. Because He is getting one of His children Home with Him, so He can share His love with them for eternity. And since we know He is in charge, the timing cannot be wrong. With anything less then our graduation from training, we are being given more time to learn to trust in Him, to complete training and assignments. All of these are good things. So we should be having more time to show our lover – God how much we love Him through the trust we have in him, love Him, that we like Him enough to complete the training and assignments He has given us.
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