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Patience.
I don’t know how many of us would consider ourselves to be patient people.
I am sure we have all heard the familiar cliche, patience is a virtue.
We know it to be true but do we know what it means to be patient?
Especially in our world today, it seems that everything is in go mode all the time.
Rush rush rush to get things done as quickly as possible so we can get on to the next task.
Fast food is too slow, now you can even order ahead.
If you have a Keurig you can have a cup of coffee in 1-2 minutes piping hot ready to go.
If you have a smart phone, you have the internet at your fingertips.
You don’t even have to go through the store to pick out your own groceries anymore.
Not that any these are entirely bad but it shows our desire to get around waiting.
So many of these developments are wonderful things.
They make our lives easier and can give us more time for important things.
Yet Paul calls believers to put on patience.
At some point we must take the time to ask if having it our way, right away, is causing problems.
Is the immediacy of our culture leading to overblown expectations and growing an unhealthy felt need for instant gratification.
In turn people are losing patience with one another as well.
Fallout from this is even making the news.
There was a story the other day that was running about road rage.
A few months back there was a man riding on the hood of another mans car over an incident.
It makes me wonder though as well, Paul was even calling on the Colossian readers to put on patience.
Even in that time people had the same desires.
Desires to take shortcuts.
There is a reason for this.
I think we can trace the root of the issue back to the garden.
To Adam and Eve and the tree of knowledge.
Taking the fruit was a shortcut.
Taking the fruit was the immediate way to gain the knowledge.
If asked, could you define patience?
Could you do so without giving examples?
Defining the word
When we think of patience, we think of waiting.
Waiting patiently for something to happen.
Our Greek word here for patience helps us to further define the idea a bit.
① state of remaining tranquil while awaiting an outcome, patience, steadfastness, endurance
② state of being able to bear up under provocation, forbearance, patience toward others
1: bearing pains or trials calmly or without complaint
2: manifesting forbearance under provocation or strain
3: not hasty or impetuous
4: steadfast despite opposition, difficulty, or adversity
To give us a simple definition, we could define patience as waiting calmly without complaint.
This can be a lot easier said than done.
For instance when it is bed time and all your child wants to do is play with toys.
Perhaps in school we asked another person not to mess with something of ours.
Another could be someone you are working with not doing what they were asked to do.
In this example a wrong is being done against us, the individual is not listening.
We have a choice in how we respond.
Our natural response is it get angry, raise our voice and repeat ourselves.
Is this responding calmly without complaint?
We must make the choice to lovingly correct the child.
We must make sure that the other student actually heard what was asked of them.
We must make certain that the person we are working with fully understood the instruction.
If we are following the example put forth by Jesus, we respond in situations such as these with the traits that Paul has told us to put on.
I know, easier said than done but we must make the effort.
We grow in Christ when we put on the traits that he modeled.
Jesus was and is patient.
Jesus provides for us an amazing example of patience as he trained his disciples.
The men who were following Him, living with Him.
Think of the strife that occurs when you get a group of people together over time.
There are going to be issues that arise.
Even in a group of believers.
People see things differently.
Everyone has unique personalities and different upbringings that shape them.
The disciples.
There were many squabbles that arose amongst the disciples.
In Mark chapter 10 we see the example of James and John coming to Jesus asking to sit in the seats of glory with him in heaven.
When the other 10 heard what they had asked they became indignant.
The ironic thing is, just previous in Mark 9 we saw that on the road to Capernaum the disciples had been arguing with one another about who was the greatest.
Jesus asked what they were discussing but they would not tell him.
So when they stopped Jesus taught.
James and John especially did not hear the message the first time.
Jesus expanded in chapter 10
But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, 44 and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all.
45 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
How many times did Jesus have to repeat himself with the disciples.
Jesus repeated himself frequently with the disciples.
Sometimes it seems like a broken record repeating the same thing over and over again.
Jesus taught and modeled this principle and still they didn’t get it.
We have these stories and all of this repetition for a purpose.
We are no different than the disciples.
How many times does he have to repeat himself with you?
With me?
Think for a moment to yourself, what are some of the things that God has taught you that took time.
Thing that had to take patience on God’s part.
Like watching a child trying to learn something new, God has the patience to let us try and fail so that we can actually learn and grow.
We have a loving, kind, gracious, patient God.
It is in our failure that His love, His grace, and his patience are put on full display.
Jesus dealt patiently with Peter in His failure.
An example of this we can see in scripture is in the life of Peter.
Peter, after having lived with Jesus and claiming he would die with him if necessary, denied he even knew Jesus 3 times in that one night, before the rooster crowed.
I can’t even begin to imagine the shame that he must have felt in that moment.
Yet after Jesus resurrection Jesus called Peter out of his failure and shame to be the rock which the church was to be built upon.
Jesus called Peter to to shepherd His flock.
To love His sheep.
Jesus bore with Peter in his time of great need and brought him though it stronger.
We like Peter fail.
We may even deny knowing Jesus depending upon the situation.
But God in His patience, in His Grace, in His love will restore us if we are trusting in Him.
Jesus does this because his patience is perfect.
Perfect patience.
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