Patience...?
I'm beginning to think that God is teaching me to have patience! Patience with myself, with people, relationships, goals...
Romans 3-5 (The Message) There's more to come: We continue to shout our praise even when we're hemmed in with troubles, because we know how troubles can develop passionate patience in us, and how that patience in turn forges the tempered steel of virtue, keeping us alert for whatever God will do next. In alert expectancy such as this, we're never left feeling shortchanged. Quite the contrary-we can't round up enough containers to hold everything God generously pours into our lives through the Holy Spirit!
I don't like the message much...but this passage is quite nice :-)
God obviously knows how much I long for a relationship. I'm not one to rush into things...which is why I don't have a boyfriend! I don't believe in dating for the sake of it! I believe in praying for the right person to come along, and then spending time getting to know them. I also believe that there is no point in dating just to say I have a boyfriend. I think (and i'm in danger of sounding like a 40 year old here) that i'd very much like to be with one person for life...and that I will date with the intention of staying with that person forever. Maybe THAT'S the real reason that I am 16 and free as a bird. Surely no sane male my age would want to be with someone who desires to have one compannion for life...but I truely believe that even if I have to wait until i'm 96, that God will send him my way, and it will be completely worth the wait. If God wants to send him tomorrow, that's also fine by me! I believe that God will provide me with a loving, Christian husband one day...and I really pray for that day... but I know that I must have patience, because these are God's plans for my life and not my own!
Patience with people...
Sometimes I get frustrated a little too easily. If I know how to do something, its much easier to do it for someone than it is to teach them how to do it! Like wise in listening. I'm an excellent listener, but I need a lot more patience. I need the patience to be persistant and not to be discouraged!
Patience with myself...
I CANNOT do everything in life straight away! WHen I was in high school...I hardly had to work. That sounds rediculously big headed...but it's true! I got 6 A*s and 4 As in my GCSEs with hardly any revision at all...just a lot of prayer. I was very blessed in having a natural ability to do very well under pressure, and also to have an ability to remember things very easily. However, now that college has started...i'm having to WORK! Woah! I'm really having to push myself in most subjects in order to get my "A grades"!
German was a huge shock to me! I got an A* in german at GCSE level, and didn't struggle...and my first lesson at college was a complete slap in the face! So much so, that by the end of my first two weeks, I wanted to drop German..."No" said the Lord, "have patience...!" and so that's what i've done...i've had patience, i've prayed...and I actually like German! So much so that i'd like to spend some time in Germany :-D
So I really think God is slowly granting me with patience! My loss of voice at the moment is proving to be a big test! I must pray for patience here...because I really do need my voice! I'm supposed to sing sunday...and I can't sing without a voice...but God allows all things for a reason...so if my voice is not back by then, then so be it!
God bless xxx
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Author: emmalea
Location: Staffordshire United Kingdom
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i became a christian on 6th december 2005, after a long struggle to find the lord. being the daughter of a minister, the sister-in-law of a pastor, the sister of a youth pastor and a "pretty good teen" by most standards, i guess, to some extent, i greatly assumed my...
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