The Patient Follower

Well I have spent the past five months learning how to trust in God. It has been a journey I have not always enjoyed but I'm at the point were I trust God with all of my being and I know He is in control. Learning to trust has been so amazing and I have grown so much in my walk with God, but the time has come for a new lesson...Patience.

I am such an impatient person. If you ask any of my friends they will tell you that I yell at stoplights when they take to long to change and when people drive too slow it kills me. When I'm hungry I will have the fastest thing I can make(or buy) because I don't feel like taking the time to make something healthy. This is not a very good trait that I possess, but I would like to fix it. The past few days my patience level has been pretty much non existent and it was in a moment of impatience that I realized what God was doing.

He has been telling me over and over again that His grace is enough for me, and I truly believe that it is. Yet because I know his grace is enough for me and he can fully sustain me, it is causing me to think that my journey is over. Gosh am I so wrong about that.

I am starting to realize that trust and patience go hand and hand. You can trust God all you want, but if you don't have enough patience to trust in what he says then you are going to make hasty decisions that may not end very well.

Abraham trusted God, but when God said he was going to be a father of nations, Abraham thought he had to take the situation into his own hands. If Abraham had just been a little more patient he would have prevented a lot of conflict that still occurs today. This is just an example from the Bible to back up my patience and trust theory (well I guess its not really a theory since it's true, but you see what I am saying).

I know that this next phase of my journey is not going to be easy at all, but when I make it through it I will be in such a better place. This lesson reminds me of something I heard in a sermon one time, "Sometimes we have to wait awhile for God to suddenly move." I know that if i just sit and wait in God, he is going to surprise with something amazing.

So for now I am going to be a patient follower of Christ, and listen for his voice to guide me and lead me down the path he has chosen for me.