Infinite Patience

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

August 12, 2025

Infinite Patience

And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation. And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.

Romans 5:4-5 

Have you ever doubted your salvation, your right standing with God? I have. The Apostle Paul wrote, “This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!” (2 Corinthians 5:17) Paul said if I belong to Christ, my old life is gone. Yet, there is no doubt the vestiges of my old life still make their presence known in my life today. Paul’s last phrase helps me reconcile my new life in Christ. He says, “a new life has begun.” I am not complete yet. As Paul wrote in 1 Corinthias 13:12, “All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.”

My Heavenly Father knows me completely. And he is infinitely patient with me as He works to form Christ in me. I am learning to accept the vestiges of my old life as evidence that God is still at work within me.

My Takeaway: “And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.” (Philippians 1:6) 

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.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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