Meditations on
Staying In the Grace for Today
July 1, 2025
Godly Patience
Don’t say, “I will
get even for this wrong.”
Wait for the Lord to
handle the matter.
Proverbs 20:22
When I am entrusting my future confidently to God, I am inviting The Holy Spirit to increase my awareness that God is working in me, giving me the desire and the power to do what pleases him. (Philippians 2:13) With this awareness, the Holy Spirit is developing His fruit within me, especially patience. Not patience as the world understands it, but Godly patience that is rooted in God’s character. Patience that is rooted in God’s character accepts injury without retaliating in kind. Rather, as the writer of today’s Proverb stated, Godly patience waits for the Lord to handle the matter.
Instead of retaliating for an injury, patience teaches us to practice forgiveness. Retaliating is irreverent. Forgiveness displays reverence for God. (Remember, be holy in everything you do.) Forgiveness does not affirm the actions of the one who caused the injury. Forgiveness says that God is faithful and will do what is right.
My Takeaway: Godly patience is teaching me not to be in a hurry. Godly patience is teaching me to live at the pace given by God, to accept incompleteness and experience God’s peace as I wait on Him. Godly patience is teaching me to stay in the grace for today.
Sē’lah
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(Selah is a word that appears in the
Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my
correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about
these things.)
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