Each new year of ministry brings a new area that God is working on in me. Last year, it was all about seeing myself rightly, the way that God sees me. Ultimately, He taught me about His love and how it doesn't change and isn't based on the good works that I do. He loves me for who I am.
This year, the word that keeps popping up for me is patience. I'm pretty certain this is the new lesson for the year. In my ministry, I'm learning what it means to set a vision that takes years to accomplish and patiently wait for it to come to fruition. In my personal life, I'm learning to sit and wait, allowing God to work in His timing to give me what He thinks is good, but not in this current time.
I'm also learning what it means to pray and hope for something big to happen to a campus and to a nation, so that individuals begin declaring the Good News of the Kingdom of God. One of my close friends and I have been discussing this in detail over the past week, and the passage that comes to mind is Mark 4.30-32, the one about the mustard seed.
The Kingdom starts small and is barely visible but in time, it grows to be the biggest of all shrubs. That's powerful, but it takes time.
Patience teaches me about God's faithfulness and how He will always provide, in His time. It also teaches me to have faith and hope in Him. In fact, the longer I wait for something good to happen, it makes me hope even more, making it all the better when it arrives.
So in this season of patience, I will go through many moments of impatience. Yet, in Him I wait, knowing the best is yet to come.
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