Patient Endurance

We lived for so long doing what was right in our own eyes that we may have doubts about being able to live according to God’s principles that we are learning about.  God’s ways are different from our former ways and from the ways of society in general but, with patient endurance and the Power that is greater that ourselves to help us, we can learn to live in ways that please God. 

A young child needs love and care and time to grow strong.  When we are born again to new life we need God’s love and care and time with the Holy Spirit to grow strong in our faith in God.  We need to get to know God and trust His word.  We need to believe that God exists and that He loves and cares for us.  God’s character is revealed by the love that Jesus showed when He came to earth to die for our sins.

When we are newly introduced to someone we only know what we have been told about them or what we have observed.  If we desire to get to know the person better we need to spend time with them.  

For as you know him better, he will give you, through his great power, everything you need for living a truly good life: he even shares his own glory and his own goodness with us! (2 Peter 1:3 TLB)

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, I am glad that Your ways lead to a fulfilling life.  Please give me the will and desire to be patient with myself, so I can endure the ups and downs of learning to practice Your principles in all my affairs.  Amen

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