Christian Devotional – July 19, 2023

Through Suffering, Day 31

What is patience? Read 2 Peter 3:7-8.

Most people cringe when you think of patience. Patience is something that you do while you’re waiting for what you want to have happen to happen. However, these verses give a different view of patience. Here we see patience from the perspective of God himself.

For the Lord, patience is simply waiting for the right timing of something that you know is going to happen anyway. It is a confident waiting. The Lord knows what is going to happen, and the Lord knows when it’s going to happen. However, he still waits for the appropriate time. That’s patience.

When we are confidently waiting on God to show up and to move in our life, we can know that he will do it, and we may even know some of what he’s going to do. But, patience is allowing God to move in his time, for his glory. Are we truly being patient in the Lord, the way He is patient, today?