Patience

My study went from hope yesterday to patience today.  Patience appears to be the bridge between hope and God.  

Longsuffering and being passionate through it gave been listed as descriptions of patience.  Iv think I can be long suffering,  but I am not sure I fulfilled the hope pay off it...I think I just suffered.  So,  that is not really longsuffering (patience). It is just suffering. The fruits of the Spirit sewn to indicate longsuffering should be done with hope. So,  I need to ensure I an looking for the hotel side of my suffering.

I also need to be passionate,  not just hopeful,  but passionate about the hope!  What a difference that would make through the hard times! 

As I was finishing my study, I ran past a verse about the Holy Spirit   Talents are through the Holy Spirit and talents. I know that many times I don't exercise patience very well when it chime to something I am talented in. I want everyone else to live it like I do, and most times they do not.  So, I can be disappointed and/or impatient with them. Even angry. 

As Exodus 31:3 says, God filled a craftsman with many talents to do what God need him to do. That makes me feel so much better, because that means God gave me these talents. These passions.  They are not mistakes. They do cause me to be impatient at times,  and I need to learn to be more patient and longsuffering,  but I can do that while remembering that God gave me these talents and passions. Both patience and talents are from God! Praise God for His wonderfully simple,  yet complicated, plan for me...for alk of us.