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I AM AN 80 YEAR OLD MALE, BORN AGAIN, CHRISTIAN WITH A LOVE FOR JESUS. I DO NOT GET OUT MUCH ANYMORE BUT FIND THAT TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT THE LOVE JESUS HAS FOR THEM IS NOT ONLY WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO BUT SOMETHING THAT THE WORLD NEEDS.
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"WE ALL NEED TO LEARN PATIENCE" BY DAVID MCMILLEN
WE ALL NEED TO LEARN PATIENCE
THIS MORNING AS I WAS STUDYING ROMANS, I STOPPED ON CHAPTER 5, VERSE 2, WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT PATIENCE. MY DEFINITION OF PATIENCE, BEFORE I READ THE FULL DEFINITION, WAS "JUST COOL IT AND SEE IF IT HAPPENS". AFTER LOOKING IT UP, I FOUND THAT I WAS WAY OFF. THE NOAH WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY OF 1828 SAYS IT MEANS "The suffering of afflictions, pain, toil, calamity, provocation or other evil, with a calm, unruffled temper; endurance without murmuring or fretfulness." DOESN'T THIS SOUND JUST LIKE JESUS? HE MUST HAVE ENDURED ALL OF THESE DURING HIS LIFE ON EARTH. HE WAS THE CREATOR AND MOST OF HIS CREATION REJECTED HIM. THAT HAD TO REALLY HURT HIM.
WE NEED TO TAKE HEED TO THE LAST PART OF THIS DEFINITION, "endurance without murmuring or fretfulness", WHEN WE ARE WAITING FOR OUR PRAYERS TO BE ANSWERED. WE GET UPSET WHEN WE DON'T GET OUR ANSWER IN THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES. WE SHOULD NEVER PUT GOD ON A TIMETABLE. HE SEES THE WHOLE PICTURE AND KNOWS IF WE REALLY NEED THE THINGS WE PRAY FOR AND WHEN WE NEED THEM. WE HAVE TO TRUST HIM AND KNOW THAT HE LOVES US AND WANTS THE BEST FOR US. INSTEAD OF BEING IMPATIENT, WE NEED TO BELIEVE WE HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED OUR ANSWER AND START THANKING HIM FOR WHAT WE HAVE PRAYED FOR. JESUS SAYS IN MARK 11:24 "Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." ARE YOU GOING TO BELIEVE, I AM?
GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
