Thought of the Day June 26, 2020 Impatient with God?
Have you ever been impatient with God? Have
you prayed for something very important to you and it didn’t happen or happened
later than you desired? How did you react? Have you ever felt that God had
abandoned you, didn’t love you the way you wanted to be loved? What was your
reaction? Have you ever given up on God, because you were hurt by something
that happened to you? You believed that God should have protected you by
preventing it from happening.
Job was upset and impatient with God. He didn’t
think he deserved the calamities that happened to him. He wanted God to give
him an account. What did God say? Can the clay pot demand a reckoning from the
potter? Can the creature confront the Creator?
Isaiah tells us that God’s ways are not our
ways; his thoughts are not our thoughts. The truth is that God has every right
to be impatient with us. For all the love he has poured upon us, we have sinned
against him many times. But instead of condemning us, he chooses to chastise us
in love, so that we might return to him, where we will find true happiness and
peace.
What do we need to do? Ask forgiveness of
anytime we were impatient with God. Ask God for the grace to grow in patience, especially
when we do not understand his ways.
Patience in reference to God will bear the fruit of greater love and
trust in his goodness.
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