Patience

James 5:8

You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand. 

Are we patient? If you said yes and you live in So Cal, I can prove you wrong.... The 91 freeway.. Sit on that freeway during traffic and even the most patient people I know will crack. With terrible drivers, cops, wasting precious money on gas that is being used to sit still instead of move, places to go, people to see, things to do, Facebook comments to check, the 91 during rush hour just sucks. It is horrible. But, this passage is referring more to patience in a trial. When things around you are falling apart, how do you respond? Are you willing to wait upon God to get you out or do you take matters into your own hands? Does anger get the best of you? Do you rush into or out of things or wait on God’s timing? I have seen from my own life how so many things that I have gone through have now been used for God and to bring Him glory. Even the bad in my life. When I felt that my life was collapsing and that I was being caught in the avalanche of everything falling down onto me, God took all of that, and has used that for His glory. God has even taken my sin, my past, my wretchedness and used it for His glory, used it to break me, used it to develop me. Had I gotten out of my problems, I would never have learned, I would never have grown, I wouldn’t have had to learn to truly trust God with my everything. I don’t want to write much about patience because we know what it is, but we need to live it. We need to be Psalms 46:10 people, “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!” If we are never still, if we never depend on God, if we never go through the bad times, if we never pause to reflect on how God is God and that He controls all and has everything under control no matter what storm may be around us, He just wants us to walk out to Him in faith, like Peter did in Matthew 14. We need to be patient with our situations and instead of seeking a way out, seek God. We need to be patient with others and instead of getting mad, we give them Jesus. Family, can we do this? Yes, we really can if we believe and depend on God (Phil 4:13). This verse (Phil 4:13) truly means that ANYTHING is possible through God, no matter how insurmountable it may appear, but it must be through God.

Patience involves being patient to the core, our thoughts and emotions are involved in this 100%

Blessings family.