Life’s
journey is a marathon, not a sprint. It is patience and persistence that will
enable you to endure to the end and win the prize.
June’s Awakening, Day 28
Patience serves as a protection
against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as
the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you
must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be
powerless to vex your mind.
—Leonardo da Vinci
Patience and perseverance have a
magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
—John Quincy Adams
Therefore,
as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with
compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Colossians
3:12 NIV
Patience comes with understanding
and ever-increasing maturity. Patience grows by first putting self aside and
then enduring with a positive attitude the trials and tests of life. It also
means living with a forward focus through the mundane events of everyday
living—sometimes, that’s the most difficult. We must learn to wait our turn,
put others first, still knowing too that our time will come. Never give up or
lose hope in that. The single most important attitude to always have in the
forefront of your mind is this: “The best is yet to come, and better still
beyond that.” If you can truly make that message a part of your daily
existence, the practice of patience will become much easier and life more
joyful along the way. Life is a tedious journey, with heaven as our final
destination, and the fulfillment of all that God has for us will not be
realized till then. But for now, it’s patient endurance, focusing forward on
the prize, and running hard to win.
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