God’s Word to You is perseverance.
I was going to write about patience but decided I should wait longer. See, I asked God to give me patience once but I’m still waiting for it.
Actually I see both patience and perseverance as being a part of each other.
We ask prayer requests of God and tend to expect immediate answers don’t we? We try to use Bible verses to explain why we need whatever it is, should expect it, deserve it and to cover why we don’t get it. Or at least on our time table.
But in the midst of that we also ask for others to pray so we may influence Him and maybe even find that more righteous person to ask for us in case we have done something to disappoint God and that is why we haven’t gotten our wish, oops I mean our prayer request, yet.
Yet throughout the Bible we see over and over again that our God is faithful and always supplies our needs even if not our desires. He always comes through with what He knows is best at just the right time even when we feel He always waits until the last minute.
He reminds us we aren’t Him. Even when we waver in our faith in the waiting, He offers peace for our patience and perseverance. It’s our trust in Him. Our trust and faith in Him are proven by our patience and perseverance. Our witness is measured the same way when the world is watching.
Do you really trust Him? Do you really have faith in Him?
Then don’t get frustrated when He is offering us lessons in patience and perseverance.
He isn’t forgetting or punishing us. He is refining us.
Romans 5:3-5
More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
1 Peter 1:7
So that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 48:10
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.
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