“But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience”— Romans 8:25 (ESV). “God didn’t give me patience.” I laughed when my youngest son shared my 5-year-old granddaughter’s reply to her brother’s admonition to “just be patient.” Cash, age 14, and his younger sister, Ruby, were washing their dad’s …
“For since the world began no one has seen or heard of such a God as ours, who works for those who wait for him!”—Isaiah 64:4 (TLB). Before I learned to wait on God’s timing, impatience would have been my middle name. I didn’t like waiting on anything or anyone. We spend our lives waiting. …
Circumstances beyond our control usually leave us impatient, antsy, and sometimes, downright irritable. Those things out of our control can also lead us to take things into our own hands.
Before computers, cell phones and social media became everyday fare, weren’t we more content to get our news in the daily newspaper and on the five o’clock news?
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