Today, I felt especially impatient. I talked with God about it, picked up a book to read and found this passage written by the reformer, Martin Luther.
This is what he said, "I, said Luther, must have patience with the Pope; I must have patience with heretics and seducers; I must have patience with the roaring courtiers; I must have patience with my servants; I must have patience with my wife Kate. To conclude, these patiences are so many that my whole life is nothing but patience."
This is exactly how I feel today - my whole world is nothing but striving to be patient! What a chore that can be, and yet how privileged we are to go to God with our impatience. I live in great need of patient endurance but I believe God will lead me there.
"We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light." Colossians 1:9-12
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