Running With Patience

Running "with patience" is a hard thing to do. You would assume that the very word "running" would mean the absence of patience. We often think of patience as being still. But maybe true patience means to not run from the hardship but to run with endurance toward Christ. Because it's in the process that we are being made the most. "Don't run from tests and hardships, brothers and sisters. As difficult as they are, you will ultimately find joy in them; if you embrace them, your faith will blossom under pressure and teach you true patience as you endure. And true patience brought on by endurance will equip you to complete the long journey and cross the finish line - mature, complete, and wanting nothing." James 1:2-4

The past two years have been some of the most challenging I have ever faced. I don't understand God's plan but I know that He has one. I read something today by Christine Cain that really hit me. "Be faithful with what God puts in your hand until God gives you what's in your heart." God knows what's in my heart and what I long for. But He keeps reminding me that He is shaping me, molding me and making me. He also wants me to be faithful today with what He's placed in front of me. My desire is to be more like Him and I have SO far to go. Through all this waiting and feeling so out of control has forced me to depend on Him like I never have before. Are you going through a trial? Praying for something that still hasn't been answered? I think we all have times in our life where we feel confused. Maybe even abandoned. But when I read God's word and spend time with Him he continues to remind me that HE IS FOR ME and nothing is ever in vain. No tear is ever wasted. It's all about the journey, I am being MADE.