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patience is a virtue I don't have // Tuesday E-Devotion

1 Corinthians 13:4  (nlt) --- Love is patient and kind...
 
Galatians 5:22  (nasb) --- But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience...
 
Proverbs 16:32  (nlt) --- Better to be patient than powerful;better to have self-control than to conquer a city.
 
Is that a sign or something?  What is God trying to say?
 
Guys and girls, we better listen because God keeps throwing this stuff at me (yes, I need to listen for myself, too).  I get out of the shower (no mental pictures, please) and my mind has this praise song stuck in it about love being patient.  Then I listen to a situation going on at home where patience is missing.  Turning the other direction I look back and see that it has taken a long time to get something done at home we have been working on for while.
 
About a year ago one of our faithful Community Church people told me to be patient.  I thought that was like the old saying ... "the pot calling the kettle black".  Yet I am learning that the less I stress out and the longer I wait on God, the better the outcome and the sweeter the blessing.  Does that make sense?
 
Honestly, patience is a virtue I don't have.  Or maybe, I am learning.  How about you?
 
Psalm 27:14  (nlt) --- Wait patiently for the Lord.Be brave and courageous.Yes, wait patiently for the Lord.
 
It has only been a few months since we moved into the first home we have ever owned (us and the bank, that is).  It is cool, but we have had a few problems.  Right now we have this pipe that just won't stop leaking.  We have tried one thing and then another even with the help of my trusty friend and expert dude, Bobby.  We're both frustrated.  Know what?  God said...be patient.
 
Don't pray for patience unless you are ready for some trials, but let God work.  Worry less.  Trust God more and let patience become a virtue you do have! 
 
James 1:2-5  (nasb) --- Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.  And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.  But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
 
And finally, this Saturday (Oct 20) is my wife's birthday (37 years).  Send her an e-mail, give her a call or drop her a card, please (12 Greentree St., Collinsville, VA 24078).  THANKS

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