PATIENCE is one of the great lessons of life, and one that we are so slow to learn. In our picture this week we see how impatient both the little baby and the cat are to get a piece of what has been cooked in the big kettle. But we know they will have to wait until the girl is ready to give it to them.
How often we hear children say, “I want that, I want that,” then they have to be told they must have patience. They are not always allowed to have what they want just when they want it; they must wait until the time the giver sees it is best for them to have it.
So it is often with those who know the Lord. They ask the Lord for something, and fret because they do not get the answer right away, but they must wait His time, and seek to learn the lesson He has to teach. The fact that we do not always get an answer to our prayers immediately, may not be because the Lord is not going to answer, but because He may have different lessons to teach us first, and patience may be one of them.
Let us seek to be patient in connection with everything; patient when something goes against our wishes; patient when someone says harsh things to us; yea, seek for grace from the Lord that we may be more like Him.
ML 05/26/1918