Passionate Patience

What is it that challenges bring to me? What does all the trouble mean? I get to shout praise. I get passionate about being patient. Not just patient but passionately patient. I go after the patience in new and deep ways. There aren't enough containers to hold the patience that is mine through the HOLY Spirit.

There's more to come: We continue to shout our praise even when we're hemmed in with troubles, because we know how troubles can develop passionate patience in us, and how that patience in turn forges the tempered steel of virtue, keeping us alert for whatever God will do next. In alert expectancy such as this, we're never left feeling shortchanged. Quite the contrary—we can't round up enough containers to hold everything God generously pours into our lives through the Holy Spirit! Romans5:1-5

"A good person is saved from much trouble; a bad person runs straight into it." ~~King Solomon

We are "made good" by Jesus. He alone can do this. Because of that, we are saved from a whole bunch of trouble. Without Jesus, we run smack into to it. No avoiding that.

"A good person is saved from much trouble;  a bad person runs straight into it." ~~King Solomon (Proverbs 11:8)