I was caught off guard last week as I sat down to study for our Youth Midweek message. We are currently going through the Fruit of the Spirit (Gal 5:22-23) and what that fruit loos like being produced in the lives of Disciples of Christ. Each week we have looked at two different fruit allowing Students to see what fruit God bears in us when we abide in him (John 15).
This past week we looked at Patience. Now many times I have just brushed by God producing patience in me as really just "tolerance". That God would produce this in me as I tolerate the things around me that irritated me. The more I dove into the scripture I found myself seeing that Patience in my life through Christ will be produces as I submit to his Sovereignty. That I must trust that God's timing in and around my life is perfect. Until His timing is perfect I must continue to trust and prepare my spirit and spiritual maturity to be prepared for that timing and the task that he will have for me. This will allow Christ to Bear the Fruit to be produced in His timing.
Romans 5:3-5
[3] Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that
suffering produces endurance, [4] and endurance produces character, and
character produces hope, [5] and hope does not put us to shame, because God's
love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given
to us.
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