The Race- Part 6

Galatians 5:22a- But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering...

     This is showing you step six- longsuffering- which is patience.

     It's very hard to be patient especially when you are in a hurry. The funny thing is, God tries to test your patience when you are in a hurry. We always ask God why he has to do it when we are in a hurry. Well, He does it because it is the perfect time to test your patience. God wants you to have patience because the Bible says so.

     Patience is a hard thing to have. That's why not a lot of people have patience.

     We don't just need to be patient when we are in a hurry, we need to be patient with people. It's especially hard to be patient with people who are slow, disrespectful, or just anoying. I have had to cross people with all three of those personalities. I am talking with experience here, and I know that it is hard to have patience with those kind of people.


     Again, Jesus is another perfect example why we should have patience. People mocked him because he said that he was the Messiah, and he never tried to do something back at them. When Jesus was getting ready to die on the cross for us, people were questioning him and saying if he was really Jesus he could bring down angels to kill everyone and take him off the cross, but because of his obedience to God and his patience, he stayed quiet.

     Again, we all need patience. Pray that God will give you patience because we all know that we can not have patience without God's help.