Patience

How impatient I am! I want answers to my prayers now. I want results at this very minute. The truth of the matter is, though, that this sin didn't happen overnight, and it won't be fixed overnight either. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 says "Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends."

God is calling me to be patient and to trust in Him. To surrender my will. This verse speaks of human love, but I think also how we should love God. My love for my husband means I have to endure this suffering, but I would gladly do it over losing him forever. Just meditating on these words now, I see yet one more clear example that she didn't love him. She was happy about and even planned my husband's infidelity. She did everything in her power to make him sin. Love, according to this beautiful passage, would not rejoice in the wrong.

Dear Lord,
please teach me patience. I know that you rarely answer people exactly how they want, but isn't that a blessing? Our limited understanding can't see the future. Your plans for us far exceed any that we can have for ourselves. I know that you are at work in our lives. I know that you can see the future and will give us the means to deal with it. Jesus, I trust in Thee.