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Good morning. Welcome to the morning motivation. Brought to you by the Patriot Goal Group and the

Public Square app. Thanks for being here. Happy Friday. Talking about patience this week. Patience is hard.

I don't know if I really made that point this week. It's not easy. You don't know patience

until you've been faced with something to be patient for, right? Does that make sense?

I think it's similar to C.S. Lewis quote about temptation. He says, no man knows how bad he is

until he's tried very hard to be good. There's a silly idea that good people do not know what temptation means. Well,

that's an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. Think about

that. People who fall to temptation very quickly, they make bad decisions and their life is not doing good. So they have this perception

that they really know what temptation is. And you, Goody Two Shoes over there, you don't understand

temptation because why? Because you didn't cave to it. He says, after all, you find out the strength

of the German army by fighting against it, not by giving in.

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by laying down.

A man who gives in a temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later.

That is why bad people in one sense know very little about badness.

They've lived a sheltered life by always giving in we never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it

and christ because he's the only man who has never yielded to temptation is also the only man who knows to the

full what temptation means.

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