Patience

Bible Verse:
For Thee I wait all the day. Ps 25:5

My thought for today is the fact that we are seldom have the patience that we should because we tend to have a self-centered focus. We live in an instant world, looking for quicker and quicker ways to achieve our objectives. We no longer just think of doing a good quality job, but rather the job at hands completion so that we can rush on to the next activity.

We want more and often think that it should be given to us for less and less effort. We are so focus on achieving our desires that we lose sight of the real prize of serving a Holy God in whatever ventures we under take.

Paul said it best to the 1st century church at Rome, when he wrote: “rejoice in sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And we know that hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.

We often find ourselves without the patience to endure because we have taken our eye off of our first love, namely God. When we focus on what is in it for you and I, we miss the mark, because the process of endurance has the means to produce hope through the indwelling of God’s Spirit.

Hope satisfies like nothing else can. Being still before a Holy God and surrendering our desires to receive His heart fills us with greater joy than anything the world has to offer. We can search the world over and never find how to fill the emptiness that is revealed a part from God in our lives.

Take a moment and be still before God. Ask Him to give you the patience to wait on Him for all your personal needs. He can enable, fulfill, or make complete better than anything on earth. To find true happiness requires us to let go of the things that have captivated us today and wait patiently upon God. You will not be disappointed, for God is well worth the wait?

What do you hunger and thirst for? What drives you? Are you satisfied with waiting or do you need to be continuously on the move striving for more and more? We are called to sit by still waters today and enjoy the goodness of God. He wants us to enjoy life and we can only do it when we are focused on Him.

Bob