Patience: Read and Understand with Your Heart

 MY 2011 New Year's Resolution is to Learn PATIENCE!

Patience requires faith. Faith demands trust. In order to trust, you must know the truth. The truth is usually relative to our experiences.

Without patience we worry, we complain, and sometimes we give up hope.

We do do understand that a delay is not a denial, and that if we faithfully trust the truth, we would find it a lot less difficult to employ patience.

The greatest challenge to the development of patience is being able to wait for tangible evidence that your efforts are paying off. We have a fixed idea of what we want and what it will look like when it shows up. We hold that idea so firmly that often we are unable to detect that the very thing we want has actually arrived. If it doesn't look like the way we thought it would, or if it does not feel the way we imagined it would, we are unable to detect it's presence.

You have to have TOTAL and COMPLETE trust in the WISDOM of the Divine, believing that trials and tribulations are a greater good that have to manifest as a result.

1. You are going to be tested by fire! However, there are ALWAYS things we do not know and cannot see. When these unknown, unseen consequences show themselves in our lives, we must steadfast believing in the wisdom of the spiritual laws of the universe, knowing that the best is yet to come. You must have TRUST to be PATIENT!

2. You must not allow the wind to rattle your core. A hard-blowing wing will rip the leaves from the branches. It will cause WEAK limbs of a tree to snap. It may even cause some pretty large branches to snap off. A wind however cannot affect the core, the inner essence of a sturdy tree (or even a BACKBONE, the thing that hold everyone together). When a gusty wind blows through your life, you must retreat to your core. YOU MUST NOT BREAK. YOU MUST HAVE FAITH AND BE PATIENT!

3. Spirit and things of spiritual nature do not work on your time schedule. You are not in control! You are in a process of spiritual unfolding, and in the that process, whether you like it or not, spirit will use you every experience possible to ensure that your development is on schedule, a SPIRITUAL schedule that is. You cannot watch the clock or calendar. You must watch YOUR HEART, KNOW THE TRUTH, AND BE PATIENT with your unfolding process.

Patience is more than the ability to wait at the bus stop for forty minutes. It is so much more tahn being able to control several four year olds while watching your favorite show. Patience is the demonstration of your willingness to surrender total and complete control to the wisdom of God. It is the ability to discern the unfolding of a goal in the midst of a windstorm. It is knowing your efforts are paying off even when there is no tangible evidence to support that belief. Patience is being able to retreat to your core when you are being challenged and pull up everything in your arsenal of truth that will glorify the presence of the Divine in your being. PATIENCE IS KNOWING THAT YOU HAVE DONE YOUR BEST, AND THAT WHAT WILL BE ON THE TEST IS WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW.

SO REMEMBER....

TRUST, TRUTH, AND FAITH ARE THE FOUNDATION OF PATIENCE.

FOR EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON.

I AM NOT IN CONTROL.

A STRONG WIND CANNOT DISTURB MY CORE.

DIVINE TIME AND DIVINE ORDER ARE GUARANTEES OF MY DIVINE GOOD.

THERE IS MORE THAN I CAN SEE GOING ON.