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PATIENCE
The best illustration of impatience in all of Scripture has to be recorded in Exodus. Two brothers were engaged in the same
activity at virtually the same time-but with vastly different results. Moses was on Mount Sinai in the presence of God, holding
the tablets as God sculpted on them His rules for living. Aaron was at the foot of the mountain, sculpting an idol for himself and
the children of Israel. Moses had been on the mountain for forty days, and the natives, as they say, were restless. They asked
Aaron to make a god they could worship, and he complied. They could not wait for Moses to come down from the mountain.
They were impatient, and Aaron gave them what they asked for.
What was the difference in these two endeavors?
Moses was responding to the divine decree of God. Aaron was responding to the pleas of the people. Moses gave the people
what God thought they needed. Aaron gave the people what they thought they needed. The words that would be life and peace
and promise to them were being carved by the very hand of God, but the Israelites could not wait to read them.
You
and I must learn to be patient. Patience does not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It means waiting on God, but doing His
will in the meantime. It means using our spiritual gifts, working to bring in the harvest, and speaking out in spite of suffering and
persecution.
Memory Verse
JAMES 5:8
You too be patient; strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
Read Through The Bible
Ezekiel 13-17