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We see through tribulation we are given a gift of patience. Sometimes we do not exercise that gift. When something happens in our life and it is not what we want, it is not what we planned, if we become impatient – does it change the situation? No! We must as we receive tribulations in our life, we must then pause and in patience work our way through those temptations and those problems. The Apostle James goes as far as to say that if we can allow this patience to become the ruling factor in our lives when we have temptations and troubles, that it and it alone will bring us to full salvation, because in this patience we will return unto God, we will think of Christ’s sufferings, and all of a sudden we realise that what we are having imposed upon us is nothing. The Son of God who came from heaven, this was His creation, and look what it did to Him.  Did He ever rebel?

In patience He waited for the promise of His Father. We must learn patience within our lives, within our natural life and within our spiritual life. In our spiritual life down through history many times mistakes were made because of impatience. Many times it was foretold that the Lord would return within a certain time, not because of what the person wanted but this great desire, this impatience to receive the fulfilment of the promises of God, and those souls were not possessed. In patience we possess our souls the Scripture says, so we must all learn this patience.

Many times we hear that we have a loving Father, and many times within our life when something goes wrong we then doubt that He is a loving Father. Many times our thoughts and sometimes even our words will say — “If there is a loving Father why did He allow this to happen to me?” That is not the patience that we require.  We must remember that He is a loving Father. He will look after us. He is there for a purpose. We are His creation. He loves us. He has sent His only begotten Son so that we can be redeemed. We must liken it unto a natural father in our lives when we are little children. If we are walking along with our natural father, and we stumble and fall and hurt ourselves, what child rises and blames his father for that accident. That is not what he looks for. He will look up to his father to see a loving father who is reaching down to help him up and set him on his way again, and that is in patience. We must learn to be as little children? and we must learn to trust our Heavenly Father, and at all times give thanks for His blessings.

The apostle wrote to the Corinthians, that it is only when we give united thanksgiving unto the Almighty God that His blessings can flow freely upon us, according to His will. As we give thanksgiving within the church, will it be individual thanksgiving or will it indeed be as the apostle urged, that we unite in sincere thanksgiving daily unto the Almighty God that He has called us into this great hope and promise of that which stands before us, and that we can give unto Him something that is from our hearts. We can approach this by changing our attitude perhaps too many things within our life. We must learn patience, and in that we will receive the full salvation and the full blessings from the Almighty God.

I read of what a young man wrote to his parents from his hospital bed. His life had been one set back after another. Operation after operation. Many would say a miserable existence, but he wrote.  “God never promised that life would be fair, the promise was that when you inevitably have to confront the unfairness of life, He will be with you.”