Patience

Lessons in patience can be the biggest challenges we face. I am one of the most impatient people around. It's really easy for me to get distracted by life and expect results immediately.

I am in the midst of a lesson in patience and I have to say it's one of the most humbling experiences.

In my 35 years on earth, I've had many tests of patience but this is the biggest one. God is truly forcing me to trust in Him completely. I want what I want now, but God has different plans. It's time for me to turn my eyes away from earthly desires and focus on Him. Completely.

Galatians 5:22 - 26: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other."

Colossians 1: 10 - 12: "And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light."