Tag Archives: Patience
Don’t Ever Pray For It!
Patience. The first quality that Paul lists for love. He had to start with the hard one.
We have a running joke in our small group: don’t ever pray for patience! I remember talking to a member of the group who had a fairly young relationship with God. During the prayer time at the end of the Bible study, she prayed that God would give her patience about a situation, and afterwards we teased her about it. “Don’t pray for that,” we told her, “because that’s one thing that’s never a gift. God always answers that prayer the hard way.”
