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 toward you. He is slow to anger,

an abounding and steadfast love, unlike anyone we've ever known. Welcome to the First 15 podcast.

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 abundant life.

Our Heavenly Father perfectly models a patient heart.

2. Peter 3, 8, and 9 says,

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 would 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 cheap imitations that only cause heartache and pain. But God and his patient mercy waits to return and bring about the complete restoration of

creation that all might reach repentance.

God is patient because He is love.

God is not only patient in regard to the second coming of Jesus, he is wholly patient with

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