Pray For Patience

I thought I had a handle on patience. I thought I could agree to disagree and smile and walk away. After all, I am an optimist.

Then Texas Primaries began and my phone rings day and night, snatching me out of my recliner with political messages I don't want to hear. Don't  they know I voted early today (screaming)? Pray for me. I lost my handle. Whew.

Patience is an important characteristic of a maturing Christian. It's not sitting in a rocking chair waiting for God to do something. It's endurance in action, overcoming obstacles in the Christian race, not quitting.

Too many Christians have a tendency to quit when circumstances become difficult. It'st not talent or training that guarantees victory; it's perseverance.

Romans 5:3,4 . . .  but we glory in tribulations also; knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: