Patience-Pastor Sybil Bull

By | Pastor Sybil Bull

Patience is a virtue echoed through out my childhood whenever I needed to wait for something. Who wants to wait when you can see what you want now and it is within your reach! But my mother, grandmother and aunts thought that delaying things would help me and not hurt me. When you are young the wait hurts a lot, and the person making you wait seems cruel and uncaring. Many emotions are released when we experience a delay in the things or person we are expecting. In an instant we go from excited anticipation to feelings of neglect, despair, and even anger when we see things postponed.

This position of “waiting” brings with it a mind of impatience and aggravation when what we want does not appear to manifest. The time between our expectation and manifestation seems eternal even though at times it’s only minutes or even days that some things are delayed. Whenever we are expecting what faith tells us to hope for, we then have to wait for it. My delay is working on my behalf more that against me. James 1:3-4 tells me that the trying of my Faith works patience in me, so I am encouraged to let patience have her work in me. If we wait for the things we are hoping for patiently, we will receive more than expected. There are certain things that happen to a person who learns to wait that appear to make them more relax and happy during the delayed time. Each time faith prolongs evidence appearing right away, we are taught to stand on God’s word and trust He will show the evidence of our faith and expectation.

As much as our flesh hates it, our soul is gaining more self control and freedom to experience the position of waiting patiently. We always have a choice in this journey when it comes to faith in God’s word. We can choose to believe and anticipate His visible word coming to past, or we can make it happen because our emotions got the best of us. However, each time we lose our focus on God and do things our self we fail to get the more unexpected things because we settled for making the expected things happen our self. Now that I am on this side of waiting I rejoice in all the times I did not understand, yet I still waited on God to fulfill His word, His way!