Patients, it's all about trusting God.

The Word talks about being patient quite a bit. This could indicate I should actually be patient. I'm not going to rush in to it though. ;)

How does patients and trusting God get tied together? Well normally I'd be tying verses from several books or at least different chapters of the same book, but today this was made clear to me in one chapter of one book. We'll be looking at Hebrews 6:12-17 (see the Link as I'm at work and cannot edit the HTML of this post on this computer)

We're called to be patient as Abraham was patient waiting for a child to come of his wife's barren womb. He had been given a promise (an oath) from God Himself that he would be blessed and multiplied through a son with his wife. The blessing was the Christ Child, and the multiplication was all the nations of the earth (Jews through blood, and Gentiles through faith - being graphed into His and Abraham's family).

So how on Earth could Abraham actually patiently await a child to be born of his wife's barren womb? She was old, well beyond child baring age. He challenged God on this and God told Him to be patient, that it would happen. How could he trust God? Well God gave His word as an oath. In the world men swear by something higher (God, the Bible and so on) when they swear an oath. God swore on Himself because there is no one, nor anything higher than He. When someone swears an oath we take it as truth, how much more assured can we be of truth when God is taking an oath on Himself - the Highest? This was enough for Abraham, as it should be for us as well.

Abraham was patient, faithful and believing. After his obedience he received Isaac who was born as a pledge of Christ who would come. Because Abraham was patiently obedient and faithful, believing our Father the world was blessed with the greatest blessing. Christ, and salvation through faith in Him, his physical death, His burial, His physical bodily raising from the grave, and His ascension to Heaven where He sits at the right hand of the Father and intercedes on our (pre-elect believers) behalf.

Because Abraham trusted God he was able to be patient, and received great blessing. Being patient is an outward sign of our belief and trust in our Heavenly Father and therefore in His Holy Son, Christ Jesus. Our gifts such as faith and patients are works of the Holy Spirit and are given to those who love Him, whom He loved before the foundations of the Earth were laid. For we love Him because He first loved us. 1 John 4:19. I couldn’t resist going somewhere else in the Word with this post today.