This week we will be looking at patience as one of the key characteristics of a loving person. In I Thes 5:14, we are told to be patient with everyone. I know for me, there are some people in my world that make it easy to patient. It is easy to be patient with those who are patient with us! Others are a challenge! No matter who we are dealing with, we believe what the Love Project has the potential to do is to change us from the inside out. Outside in has never worked. When there is a change of heart, then there can be a change of attitude, and then a change of action. The phrase we have coined for the love project is this: We challenge you to develop the habits of a loving person and be made over into the image of Jesus, so the we can begin a love revolution in our world. Love is challenging! But when we make it a habit to act in loving ways, the image of Jesus will be visible in us! How awesome to be made over into His likeness. The revolution happens when we don’t only love in word, but in deed! Love goes from words to action! So when it comes to patience, we can realize that nobody is perfect, and expecting perfection really is unrealistic. Why do we expect perfection? It may be that we are trained to look for imperfections. (We don’t purchase anything with flaws, and to admit that we have flaws, and those around us do too, is hard on our pride.) It may be that we just haven’t determined that patience is now who we are in Christ, and how we act once we have come into relationship with a loving and patient God. But that can change! Let’s let patience have its perfect work in us.
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