Be Patient with All
It is very easy to lose our patience, if we are not careful. People and things can try our patience until we snap. However, the command of God is for us to be patient with all people. (I Thessalonians 5:14) If God commands us to do it, then it is possible in His way and in His power.
We run into unruly people all of the time. They break the rules, and they think they are above the rules. They live out of control, because they do not respect what God says to do and how God says to live. We are to warn them of their rebellion, and show them to follow the Lord. All the while we are to be patient with them, in the process.
There are fainthearted people all around us, too. They are afraid, or maybe, they are just the type of people who give up easy. We are to comfort them, which means we are to come beside them to give them strength to do the right thing, and we are to do it patiently.
Weak people are very frail, and they have a lot of needs, whether the weakness is physical, emotional, or spiritual. We might be tempted to simply tell them to be strong and do the right thing. Instead of being impatient with them, we are to uphold them by picking them up by whatever means we have available to us.
God is patient and merciful, even when He corrects us. We must ask Him for the strength to do what He would do to help those around us as He would.
Tomorrow, I intend to read II Thessalonians 3 and I Timothy 1-2.
We run into unruly people all of the time. They break the rules, and they think they are above the rules. They live out of control, because they do not respect what God says to do and how God says to live. We are to warn them of their rebellion, and show them to follow the Lord. All the while we are to be patient with them, in the process.
There are fainthearted people all around us, too. They are afraid, or maybe, they are just the type of people who give up easy. We are to comfort them, which means we are to come beside them to give them strength to do the right thing, and we are to do it patiently.
Weak people are very frail, and they have a lot of needs, whether the weakness is physical, emotional, or spiritual. We might be tempted to simply tell them to be strong and do the right thing. Instead of being impatient with them, we are to uphold them by picking them up by whatever means we have available to us.
God is patient and merciful, even when He corrects us. We must ask Him for the strength to do what He would do to help those around us as He would.
Tomorrow, I intend to read II Thessalonians 3 and I Timothy 1-2.