Patience is perhaps the most underestimated and most undesired slice within the fruit of the Spirit. Some even foolishly say things like, "Don’t pray for patience." Well, "love is patient" so we cannot have the fruit of the Spirit apart from patience, and that alone makes me desire it.
I am beautifully challenged towards patience by the commentary that Oswald Chambers gives for 1 Thessalonians 5:14. Let me share the verse first and then the commentary.
The verse 1 Thessalonians 5:14:
"We [earnestly] urge you, believers, admonish those who are out of line [the undisciplined, the unruly, the disorderly], encourage the timid [who lack spiritual courage], help the [spiritually] weak, be very patient with everyone [always controlling your temper]."
The Oswald Chambers commentary:
"Don’t lose patience with others if they do not see at once what you already see. God’s word exhorts us to be patient with all people. It brings to mind the question; How long did it take God to put me (to put you) where i am (where you are) now?"
So i pray: "God You are Love and You are patient, please make me like You! Amen!"
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Pastor Kerry Willis
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