TODAY’S WORD FOR THURSDAY JANUARY 7, 2016.
PATIENCE
The power or capacity to endure without complaint something difficult or disagreeable, longsuffering; ability or willingness to suppress restlessness; quiet; steady; even tempered.
Make haste to help me O Lord. Psalm 70:1
But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:31.
My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete. James 1:2-4.
We live in a day when everyone wants immediate gratification. We want everything now and do not want to wait. We enter a gas station to get gas for our car and if there is a line we start to complain. We go to the grocery store and we expect the line to check out to be waiting open for us.
When it comes to our prayer time, we expect God to answer our prayer right now. We are just like David was in the verse from Psalms that we have put above. David said, “make haste to help me”. How many times have you prayed and when God did not respond right then to give you the answer you want have you reacted by blaming God for not answering your prayer.
In the second verse we have put above, Isaiah reminds us that we need to develop patience and learn to wait upon the Lord. We need to be reminded that patience requires perseverance and endurance.
Having patience to wait upon the Lord allows Him to work in our lives so we can grow in faith. Waiting is a time of learning. What happens within us while we are waiting on the Lord is often more important than the attainment of what our prayer was asking God about. Waiting on the Lord takes trust and obedience.
In the third verse we have put above, James tells us to consider it pure joy whenever we face trials because the testing of our faith develops patience.
Waiting on God to answer a prayer can cause us to doubt. Is God really listening, we may ask? Does He hear our prayers? We can be assured by His Word that God does listen and He does hear our prayers. But God’s time table is different than ours, but His is always perfect.
Waiting may test our faith, but learning to have patience is part of becoming a mature Christian and being what God wants us to be.
Someone once said that the patient perseverance of the snail was the reason it reached Noah’s ark. Patience leads to success and success doesn’t come quickly or easily. To gain success is largely a matter of holding on after all others have let go. You need patience to make that happen.
Our memory verse for this week is found in that Mark 16:15.
And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.”
Give me the patience today Lord, to wait on You to renew my strength and to answer my prayers. Help me to be patient today to those who try to make life difficult for me. Give me patience that endures and will allow me to run and not be weary and to walk and not be faint.
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