Lord help me with patience

I don’t know about you, but I am a fixer, and as a fixer I am not known for my patience. On any given moment, I am fully trusting and declare my readiness for God’s time and in the next moment, I am eager to help God along. Have you ever been in the same place? Patience is defined as the capacity to accept or tolerate delays, hardships, or frustrations calmly and without complaint. It illustrates perseverance, self control and the ability to endure the most difficult of times. David reminds us that we must anchor ourselves in God and in doing so, we can overcome anything. “I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord” (Psalms 27: 13-14, NIV). I recognize that I am in a season of refinement and my patience and trust in God will be strengthened on the other side of this.

I chatted with a dear friend seeking to hear God and to make sure that before she moves forward with significant decisions in her life that she know it is of God and not anything else. I shared the same desire. I remain prayerful in all things and pray that I not get in the way of God’s path for me and for my loved ones. I pray without ceasing that God direct my hands and my words. I pray for comfort, for peace, and for patience. The hardest of these for me is patience. I see God’s signs and I feel and hear God speaking to me. Receiving His direction is the easiest part, being patient and being still, that’s the hard part. I have come to discover that being still requires action on my part. It is not a natural state for me. Trusting and being patient requires me to be still-again, not my natural state. Although not my natural state, it is what God expects of me and I will obey.

David never asked to be selected as King. He did not ask for the hardships that were to follow him for what must have seemed endless days. Even in his reign, times were not without trials and tribulations but he remained faithful. He set the example for all of us in trusting God above all else. He did not seek personal glory, he only sought to “dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of ‘his’ life” (Psalms 27:4, NIV). As long as we have God in our lives, we have nothing to fear but we must be patient and trust. This is my season to learn to be still, to learn to be patient and to trust God above all else.

Today, I pray that you seek patience and trust in God. I pray that you find a way to be still, be strong, and wait for the Lord. All things in His time and not our time.

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