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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 the CS 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. Let's pause here. 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. I love that. It's similar with patience, right? If you need to be patient for something

and you're not, then you don't really know what it means to be patient. And if you're not going

through something difficult, then there's nothing to be patient

for.

So patience implies difficulty.

It's like a necessity of it.

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