Patience<\/i> is born of trust.<\/i> David said, \u2018Trust the Lord and live right! The land will be yours, and you will be safe. Do what the Lord wants, and He will give you your heart\u2019s desire.\u2019<\/i> (Psalm\u00a037:3\u20134\u00a0CEV) God has a plan for your life. It includes things you can\u2019t have today that you will be able to enjoy tomorrow. When rain comes, the grass grows on its own. So, stop struggling to accomplish something now that will be easy when the time is right. <\/p>\n
When you refuse to give a toddler something that\u2019s not good for him, he stamps his foot and cries, \u2018I want it now!\u2019 So, do you give in to him? No, because he is not ready for it yet. <\/p>\n
Paul writes, \u2018Patience \u2026has the power to endure whatever comes, with good temper.\u2019<\/i> (Colossians\u00a03:12\u00a0AMPC) Not only is God teaching you how to wait but how to have a good attitude while you\u2019re doing it. <\/p>\n
James writes, \u2018When your patience is finally in full bloom, then you will be ready for anything.\u2019<\/i> (James\u00a01:4\u00a0TLB) God permits certain things to happen in life to teach us important principles like:<\/p>\n
(1) maintaining our faith when times get tough; <\/p>\n
(2) showing grace under pressure by controlling our responses; and <\/p>\n
(3) developing new skills and better ways of thinking. <\/p>\n
The truth is, God is developing qualities in you right now that can\u2019t be developed any other way. When He\u2019s finished, you will have the maturity to handle what He has in mind for you. So, don\u2019t let the enemy rattle you or the circumstances put you into overdrive. \u2018Be patient and trust the Lord.\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Patience is born of trust. David said, \u2018Trust the Lord and live right! The land will be yours, and you will be safe. Do what the Lord wants, and He will give you your heart\u2019s desire.\u2019 (Psalm\u00a037:3\u20134\u00a0CEV) God has a plan for your life. It includes things you can\u2019t have today that you will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}