Patience and Love

Acts 17: 26-27; And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that the might grope for him and find him, though He is not far from each one of us.
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Patience-waiting calmly without complaint for something we hope will occur.

How often I find myself able to put on an outward appearance of patience when in my stomach there is a volcano preparing to erupt and the restrain I use not to force God’s hand is nothing short of an act of God itself. I find myself wanting to force the hand of others instead of showing them the love of Christ.

So when we have a desired outcome how do we wait without anxiety? How to we have patience without masking impatience?|

In my own life, and as a Christian, the times I have had to put trust completely in God for the outcome, he has always gone beyond my expectations exceeding whatever plans and dreams I imagined on my own.

How do we get to a place where our hands do not want to force an outcome? Where we actually have the desire to wait knowing God’s way in time will be better?

True patience requires love and trust. When we trust God to work through others we are loving them. Big things can happen.  When I knew that God loved me what happened? I changed. People are no different. When they know they are loved, they change.

God’s love is the foundation of change: In life, in others and in our desired circumstances as well. And guess what, as we wait on the Lord and the changes that others will make we find out we are the ones who have changed and the joy is in the waiting. – Dan Gavin Jr. is a graduate of the Colony of Mercy and is currently in our internship program at America’s Keswick

Daily Bible Reading: Job 20-21; 1 Corinthians 7:20-40

Quote of the day: In the Bible, faith is a mixture of trust and trustworthiness. To have complete confidence in God makes a man reliable. And, when someone never lets you down, you look instinctively for a deeper relationship. Robert Mackie

Bible Memory: The Lord is my portion; I promise to keep your words. I entreat your favor with all my heart; be gracious to me according to your promise. Psalm 119:57-58