Everyday we are faced with situations where we have to be patient. Maybe it’s a little extra patience you need waiting for your children to complete a task you asked to get done; maybe the patience is waiting for a prayer to be answered.

It is in the midst of these situations that we learn that God is still at work.

He is still working to make a way for us, even though sometimes it is hard for us to see. As hard as the lesson of patience can be, it’s an important one for all of us.

Patience teaches us to wait and to remember that we can’t control every situation in our lives. It teaches us that God is in control. When we continue our relationship with God and continually have faith in him, we learn to trust God through every situation we are faced with. It’s when we have full trust and faith in God that the patience we need in life will come naturally, because it will come from Him.

In Galatians 5:22 it reminds us that “God’s Spirit makes us…patient”. And as we grow in Christ, our ‘fruit’ of patience also grows.

So what situation are you currently facing that you need a little patience?

 “But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience”

Romans 8:25