MARCH 2025 – DIVINE PATIENCE!

I still welcome you again into the new year 2025, which is the God’s Year for our Divine Zeal for the Kingdom’s Assignments (Romans 12: 11). Surely, this is the year to be more passionate for the values and purposes of the kingdom of God above everything else by His grace. This third month of March is the month of Divine Patience. Wonderfully, patience has been defined as the queen of all virtues while impatience is called the king of all vices in life. When everything is going our way, patience is easy to demonstrate. The true test of patience comes when our rights are violated—when another car cuts us off in traffic; when we are treated unfairly; when our coworker derides our faith, again. Some people think they have a right to get upset in the face of irritations and trials. Impatience seems like a holy anger. The Bible, however, praises patience as a fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22) which should be produced for all followers of Christ (1 Thess. 5:14). Patience reveals our faith in God’s timing, Omnipotence, and love. The next time you are in a traffic jam, betrayed by a friend, or mocked for your testimony, how will you respond? The natural response is impatience which leads to stress, anger, and frustration. Praise God that, as Christians, we are no longer in bondage to a “natural response” because we are new creations in Christ Himself (2 Cor. 5:17). Instead, we have the Lord’s strength to respond with patience and in complete trust in the father’s power and purpose. “To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life” (Romans 2:7) May the good Lord deliver us from the spirit of impatience and restore us from every deadly error of impatience in the mighty name of Jesus Christ (Amen)!