By: Monique Smith
So if you follow me on twitter, you may have read my tweet the other day: “Its tough realizing how impatient I am & then after asking for more patience realizing my frustration with God in times to learn #conviction “
This is some true stuff and it was very much convicting when I realized that. Basically I am seeing areas of impatience in my life so much more now, because I am being placed in situations where I have to practice patience in pretty much ALL aspects of my life. At work, with coaching, personal life, spiritually,….just everywhere. Then when I notice those things, my first thought is: GOD, give me more patience!! I know I need to work on waiting on your will and allowing you to be Lord over everything in my life. Then the very second, I am faced with a situation that will TEACH ME MORE PATIENCE, I’m frustrated with God and ready for it to end. UGH.
James 1: 1-3 “My brothers and sisters, when you have many kinds of troubles, you should be full of joy, 3 because you know that these troubles test your faith, and this will give you patience.4 Let your patience show itself perfectly in what you do. Then you will be perfect and complete and will have everything you need .
From the scriptures, I KNOW that the situations that frustrate me HAVE to test my faith in order to GIVE ME patience, but sometimes I disregard the scriptures and rather stay in “darkness” and be upset with God that things aren’t going as smoothly as planned.
Ecclesiastes 3: 1 & 11 says “ There is an occasion for everything, and a time for every activity under heaven…..[God] has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also put a sense of past and future in their minds, but man cannot discover the work God has done from beginning to end.”
To me those scriptures are saying, regardless of the speed I want things to happened, there is a specific time for that to take place. God in his infinite wisdom has already pre-ordained the time for everything to happen in my life, and I may have a thought or idea of the future, but I will never be able to fully connect all the pieces to the puzzle!
God has promised me some big things in the future, that right now, I honestly am growing very impatient in waiting on because it just does not look like things will ever manifest. Even though I have many answered prayers that God came through on in the past, somehow I still lose sight of that in my rush to have everything when I want it. But I thank God so much, that He loves me in spite of myself. Just this week, God reminded me of some prayers I have been praying and He is showing me how certain things are connecting, right now, to make those things come to past. How great is it that we have a Dad who cares enough about us to do that for us! He saw my lack of faith and lack of patience last week, but He directed me to scripture and revealed some of His plan to me still. My goodness! I love that man! So y’all stay encouraged! Just know that if we want something from the Lord, it will take work and we have to step way out of our comfort zone.
Prayer: Lord, I love you! Help me accept these trials and situations that are in my life only to teach me patience. I am tired of getting frustrated with you, because I know you know what’s best. Sometimes, I just get so obsessed with myself and want what I want before you give it to me. Give me wisdom to realize the importance of patience and practical steps I can take to become less frustrated in this process. Lord I love you! In Jesus name, Amen.
Paitence is definitely key!! Try to keep the big picture in mind instead of focusing on your current day/situation so much. And when you are discouraged/frustrated take a look back at how far you have come in your walk and in life in general and how long that took. It'll keep things in perspective! :)
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