It's vital to the Christian life that we as sons and daughters of the Most High God

allow our affections to be stirred by the loving, powerful nature of our Heavenly Father.

Too often we feel that God is distant or separated from us.

Too often we allow misconceptions or lies to place a rift between us and experiencing God.

So as we spend time this week, focusing on God's character,

allow who he is to stir up your desire to know him even more.

Welcome to the First of Teen podcast. Our verse for today comes from 2nd Peter 3, verse 9, where Scripture 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. First Corinthians 13.4

tells us that love is patient. Patience is a part of love that doesn't feel fun at the beginning.

It feels like an act of self-control rather than passion, as if the two aren't perfectly connected.

And it often comes across as a sign of weakness rather than an attribute of the bold and powerful that we so often admire.

But Scripture teaches us a different view of patience.

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 counts slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

God, in his passionate desire for restored relationship with all his children has perfect patience toward us.

His passion leads him to patience.

And it's in his desire to see us grow in all manner of holiness and godliness,

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