Right now I’m in a situation where I am forced to be patient. I’m not very good with being patient.
Patience is not my virtue.
Yet here I am.
Growing up in the church I remember people talking about having the patience of Job but when I finally read the book of Job, I discovered that Job really didn’t have a lot of patience either. He complained. God set him straight too. Job just didn’t sit down looking up into heaven while his entire life was being destroyed. He expressed his feelings to God. He did have patience in that he continued to trust God during his trials but it still wasn’t easy for him.
God knows our emotions. What we never think of is that even when we stress out, God is never stressed. He is working out things for us. The frustrating part is that we don’t know what He’s doing. Yes, God has a plan but I have no clue what that is and I admit that it scares me. I don’t know where it will lead or what else I will need to go through to get to the completion of His plan.
Life has taught me that we all will go through times where our patience is tested. I can tell you that mine has been tested and I have failed many times. God will put you in a place where you HAVE to either trust Him or things won’t happen. In the times I have failed the patience test, it was because I moved on ahead and tried to fix things myself because I didn’t think God was working fast enough. I have discovered that in doing that, I have messed things up.
Fortunately there are times when God fixed whatever I had messed up in the process of His plan for me. It may have taken more time and a different route to get there but He has worked it to His purpose. I am thankful for God’s mercy and knowing me so well.
So right now I’m living in the land of being patient and waiting. I have done all that I know to do so I am in a holding pattern. I don’t know for how long. Once we have prayed about a situation and leave it with God, we need to wait for Him to work it out. God is patient with us and He understands what waiting does to us. Waiting on God is good for us (I can’t believe I’m saying this). If God acted immediately every time we cried to Him, we would be in control and not Him. Being forced to wait causes us to learn to trust Him and in His timing.
I’m doing my best with this right now. I am trusting that my situation will be resolved and that God will open the right door for me at the right time.
