“Wait” is no one’s favorite word. As far as fruits of the Spirit, patience isn’t celebrated like love, joy, peace, and kindness. Based on popularity, if patience were a food, it would probably be lima beans.
But patience is really one of your greatest strengths. When you read, “wait on the Lord,” it doesn’t mean you’re on your own until God has time for you. It doesn’t mean you need to just suck it up and paint a smile on your face. It means you’re invited to wrap yourself in God’s presence and let his voice of encouragement and hope overwhelm every other voice of fear and disappointment. Patience is the state in which you’re empowered to surround yourself in his unyielding love for you, even when you don’t yet know what the next step is.
Every time you give your unresolved relationships and circumstances to God as you wait with him, he gives back to you a deeper love, a greater peace, a more powerful joy, and a kindness that transforms lives. Patience makes superfruits of all the others.
If you’ve tried being patient on your own, it’s usually frustrating and draining. But God is inviting you to live so powerfully in him, no situation or person is able to steal from your life. He wants to show you how to thrive in him so that every situation needing patience gives you strength.
“Wait on the Lord. Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart. Wait, I say, on the Lord!” (Psalm 27:14).
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