The patience of God is amazing.
With Adam and Eve.
With Noah and his family.
With Abram who was renamed to Abraham.
With Isaac, with Jacob, with his sons, with Joshua and the Exodus Hebrews…
The list goes on and on.
That list includes you and me, of course.
If God were not patient with us, we would have no hope for eternal life.
For we certainly don’t have enough spiritual merit to qualify for heaven.
But God IS patient. And that’s because God is purposeful.
You see, God has a plan for you and for me and has had such since before Creation.
Ephesians 1:4 tells us so.
His patience is rooted in His desire for us to spend forever with Him, according 2 Peter 3:9.
His patience is able to endure His disappointment with our decisions along the way toward the repentance and submission to the Gospel that He desires for every soul.
Why is He so patient? Check out this passage from Isaiah 43 and you’ll get a clearer picture of why:
“I have made Israel for myself, and they will someday honor me before the whole world.” (Isaiah 43:21)
God knew that Israel was a work in progress, that all of the Hebrews should have been wearing T-shirts that said “He’s still working on me.”
God had the supernatural ability to see people for what they could be, not simply for what they were.
His hope was for their surrendering to His will for His glory and their eternal good.
Someday.
Wow.
We are given physical life so that we might give God our spiritual lives that are committed to honoring God in the eyes of the world.
Let’s do all we can to make “someday” start happening today.
It’s the least we can do for the Father who did the most He could do for us.
As always, I love you
Martin
