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Patience


The last blog was an introduction into the fruits, or gifts, of the Spirit. To quote the actual Scripture: “ 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law,” (Galatians 5: 22-23).

I could spend time focused on each one, but the one that is usually most near and dear to my heart is patience. Some days I am blessed with an abundance of it. Others, I find myself impatient with just about everyone and everything. On one of those “impatient” days, I looked up “patience” in my bible’s concordance and found the verses above. The words hit me like a brick: because I believe in Jesus Christ as my Savior, I have the gift of the Holy Spirit. Breaking it down further - I was given the gift of patience in abundance; I just had to have a wake-up call to find it. Please remember, as I sometimes forget, that the Holy Spirit is alive in YOU! And that Spirit is never impatient. That Spirit is loving to the core…

I think the key to this successful incident was that I realized I was not in control…if I was, I would have most likely remained stressed out and cranky for the rest of the day. Instead, I chose to pray, and give control over to the Holy Spirit in me, which was taking advantage of a gift I all too often forget I have. The change in attitude was not instantaneous...but it did happen!

Heavenly Father, thank you for the gifts of the Spirit. Please help us to remember and appreciate all of them. In realizing that those gifts never run out, there is no excuse to be anything but positive and overflowing with love for those around us. That is after all, your command – to love one another! Thoughts that go in the opposite direction of those gifts are not from You. Please always remind us to turn to You when those negative thoughts and attitudes take over.  Life is too short to spend it being impatient and stressed out. Your gifts outweigh any we could think of on our own.

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