In our fallen state, patience isn't something we find very often in ourselves or others.

I don't know if I know one person who has perfectly displayed patience for me, myself included.

What's incredible about our Father in heaven is that he is an endless well of patience.

He has patience and abundance, and it never runs out for us.

Today, allow God to reorient the way you understand him and his heart towards you.

He is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, unlike anyone we've ever known.

Welcome to the First of Teen Podcast. Welcome to the first of team podcast. Our verse today comes from 2 Peter 3.9 and says,

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise, as some counts slowness, but is patient toward you,

not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

There is no virtue more calming than patience. A peaceful lifestyle begins with patience. Patients can

transform even the most stressful places of one's heart into calm streams of joy and abundant life.

Our Heavenly Father perfectly models a patient heart.

2 Peter 3 8 through 9 says,

But do not overlook this one fact, beloved,

that with the Lord, one day is as a thousand years,

and a thousand years as one day.

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. God's perspective and overwhelming love for us fills his heart with incredible patience.

Think for just a second about all the atrocities, perversions, sin, and depravity that God

witnesses on a continual basis. He watches in pain as humanity kills, steals, lies, and cheats.

He watches as those he most cares for throw away his perfect plans for cheap imitations

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