Hmmm... honestly, that title just typed itself. I was going to write about how I got engaged last week. Well, I guess that will a be a topic for another day.
So, I don't know if any of you have experienced this, but with each passing year I get more and more impatient. I used to get compliments about how patient I was, but I don't think I really had patience... I think I was just unaware of how to keep track of time... the big hand, the little hand, what did it all mean!! But now, with my clock-reading skills at their peak, I feel as though I have lost that "patience".
In the Bible, we are supposed to clothe ourselves with patience (Col 3:12), but I usually think it makes me look fat (insert lame joke here). Instead I like to put on impatience which usually makes me angry, and then before you know it I'm screaming at the car in front of me for going 5 under the speed limit and practicing my "are you freakin kidding me" face in the review mirror, and what's funny is most of the time I'm not even running late.
I definitely can blame it on society, because we do live in this "whatever you want, whenever you want" day and age of instant gratification, but I think what it boils down to for me at least is me just being disobedient. The book of Colossians talks about the transformation in our hearts when we become a new creation by accepting Jesus as our Savior and committing our lives to him. This transformation isn't this instant thing that happens overnight. Obviously b/c I still yell profanities at elderly drivers. But it should awaken this new purpose in our lives that we are called to- be in the world, but not of the world. I think sometimes, especially if you have been a Christian for a while, you get slightly removed from that purpose. My challenge to myself tonight is to come back to that place of direction and desire, and if anyone wants to come with me the water is warm, so come on in.
Colossians 3:12 in it's entirety says, "Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience."
Proverbs 25:15 "Through patience, a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone."
Think about that, patience is this terriffic catalyst that can create relationships with people we never thought possible, it can force people to listen...people who would of never given you the time of day. A gentle tongue can break bone, how many times have you seen a tongue break a bone... well besides that one time...NEVER. Patience yields some powerful things in our spirits, so let's unleash it and change the world.
Missed ya'll.
So, I don't know if any of you have experienced this, but with each passing year I get more and more impatient. I used to get compliments about how patient I was, but I don't think I really had patience... I think I was just unaware of how to keep track of time... the big hand, the little hand, what did it all mean!! But now, with my clock-reading skills at their peak, I feel as though I have lost that "patience".
In the Bible, we are supposed to clothe ourselves with patience (Col 3:12), but I usually think it makes me look fat (insert lame joke here). Instead I like to put on impatience which usually makes me angry, and then before you know it I'm screaming at the car in front of me for going 5 under the speed limit and practicing my "are you freakin kidding me" face in the review mirror, and what's funny is most of the time I'm not even running late.
I definitely can blame it on society, because we do live in this "whatever you want, whenever you want" day and age of instant gratification, but I think what it boils down to for me at least is me just being disobedient. The book of Colossians talks about the transformation in our hearts when we become a new creation by accepting Jesus as our Savior and committing our lives to him. This transformation isn't this instant thing that happens overnight. Obviously b/c I still yell profanities at elderly drivers. But it should awaken this new purpose in our lives that we are called to- be in the world, but not of the world. I think sometimes, especially if you have been a Christian for a while, you get slightly removed from that purpose. My challenge to myself tonight is to come back to that place of direction and desire, and if anyone wants to come with me the water is warm, so come on in.
Colossians 3:12 in it's entirety says, "Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience."
Proverbs 25:15 "Through patience, a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone."
Think about that, patience is this terriffic catalyst that can create relationships with people we never thought possible, it can force people to listen...people who would of never given you the time of day. A gentle tongue can break bone, how many times have you seen a tongue break a bone... well besides that one time...NEVER. Patience yields some powerful things in our spirits, so let's unleash it and change the world.
Missed ya'll.
