patience...

I have been writing intermittently about different fruit of the spirit... patience wasn't one of the ones I wrote about.. but as I am told that patience is what I lack.. not peace... I am looking at that one... some versions call it long suffering... looooonnnnnggggg suffering...

Colossians 1: 9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, 12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light.

So that we may live a life worthy of the Lord... we have to have patience to live a life worthy of the Lord... wow... hadn't expected that! I really don't WANT to have great endurance and patience.. yet apparently this is necessary to live a life pleasing to and worthy of the Lord...
Psalms 78: 40 Oh, how often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved his heart in that dry wasteland. 41 Again and again they tested God’s patience and provoked the Holy One of Israel. 42 They did not remember his power and how he rescued them from their enemies.

oh how often they rebelled.. and tested God's patience... sheesh.. rebellion is one of the utmost things that God hates... who would have considered not being patient as rebellion and provoking the Lord...
Psalms 106: 13 Yet how quickly they forgot what he had done! They wouldn’t wait for his counsel! 14 In the wilderness their desires ran wild,
testing God’s patience in that dry wasteland. 15 So he gave them what they asked for, but he sent a plague along with it.

aaaauuuugggghhhh... so God gives it to them.. ahead of time... and sent a plague with it... oh.. I SO don't want a plague with it....
it also says that their desires ran wild... hmmm... I wouldn't say my desires run wild... or do they...
Proverbs 25: 15 Patience can persuade a prince, and soft speech can break bones.

LOL! as I desire to persuade the prince to come on with it... I guess I am needing this patience...
Romans 15: 4 Such things were written in the Scriptures long ago to teach us. And the Scriptures give us hope and encouragement as we wait patiently for God’s promises to be fulfilled.5 May God, who gives this patience and encouragement, help you live in complete harmony with each other, as is fitting for followers of Christ Jesus. 6 Then all of you can join together with one voice, giving praise and glory to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

May GOD who GIVES this patience... so.. there is no 3 step plan... this is given by God... and look at that.. it will help us to live in complete harmony with each other... I am glad about that!! I do not ever want to go back to a life of drama.... ever!!
Galations 5: 22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!

these are the fruit of the Spirit... the Spirit of God PRODUCES these things in us....so apparently it is a process... of waiting.. of circumstances... this is what produces patience in a person...

Looks as though the answer to resting in God is on my knees.... as I pray and ask God to give me this patience that is necessary... (oh I SO don't want to ask for that...) then the Spirit will bring circumstances.. to produce it in me.... and that is the way to pleasing God and apparently finding the rest I am lacking....