…WE GLORY IN TRIBULATIONS ALSO: KNOWING THAT TRIBULATION WORKETH PATIENCE.’ ROMANS 5:3 KJV ‘He’s Working on your Patience’
The toughest times are those when all we know about God still doesn’t help us get results! That is when we learn about his silence. Whenever God doesn’t say a word.; a) He is teaching even in the stillness; b) He is allowing us to grow by forcing us to think, study and arrive at conclusion, while He stands by with a hushed smile and a watchful eye. He’s fathering us! Faith comes by hearing. Patience comes by silence! Patience is what God gives you when bad things remain unchanged. It’s God’s sedative for your troubled heart. It’s the balm He rubs into your aching muscles when you feel like you’re being stretched to breaking point. These are the times when the pain lasts so long that only God can release the patience required, the sheer grace to sustain you. The truth is patience is just strength harnessed, power focussed and faith taking it’s time. Listen ‘Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in. Study how He did it. Because He never lost sight of where He was headed - that exhilarating finish in and with God - He could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now He‘s there, in the place of honour, right alongside God. When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility He ploughed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!’ ( Hebrews 12:2-3 TM).