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 in 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 and steadfast love, unlike anyone we've ever known.

Welcome to the First 15 podcast. Our scripture for today comes from 2 Peter 3 verse 9.

Scripture says,

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.

There is no virtue more calming than patience. A peaceful lifestyle begins with patience. When birthed by a heavenly perspective, patience can transform even the most stressful places of one's heart into calm streams of joy and abundance.

Our Heavenly Father perfectly models a patient heart.

2 Peter 3, verses 8 and 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 fill his heart with incredible patience.

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

for cheap imitations that only cause heartache and pain. But God in his mercy

waits to return and bring about the complete restoration of creation that all might reach

repentance. God is patient because he is love.

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