Our impatient moments reveal a lot about us.
It’s like showing up at a dinner party. When we’re in love, our object of affection can dump soup in our lap, and we won’t mind. Yet, if the person across from us is out of our love-loop, the way he holds his spoon will spoil our meal.
We need the patience of Job to deal with those we don’t love, yet how easy it is to ignore the foibles of the ones we adore.
2 Peter 3:9 reveals God’s love towards us:
“The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.”
Yeah, that’s our Father sitting across from us, partaking of our nachos, sharing our fajitas, and enjoying our baked Alaska. When we slip, and our fork flings food all over him, he smiles, cleans up the mess, and continues his meal.
He loves us. With patience. And longsuffering. He doesn’t push his chair away and refuse our company at the slightest provocation. We’re dear to him, and he wants us around.
James 4:5 goes on to expose the root of God’s love for us:
“Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, ‘He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us’?”
We are God’s creation, the very substance he formed with his hands, and even when we are less than our best, he still feels the love he showers over us. Let’s remember the words written in Genesis 1:27:
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”
Let’s not worry about our spoon, the way we hold it, or if we hold it at all. God loves us. He wants to spend time with us. If we trip every now and then, and we spill a little soup, he helps us clean it up, and he still finds his enjoyment in us.
When God calls to us, there’s no impatience in his words. We only hear love in his voice.
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