The old farmer leans on his shovel and looks at the field. Its been a few weeks since he planted a seed and still, the field hasn’t turned green with new spouts. But he’s not worried and he’s not impatient. He knows there is a due season.

Patience is not just being able to wait, anyone can do that but it’s waiting with the right attitude of faith and trust. I have had some things that stretch my patience for years. Not just one or two but many years till I said: “Lord how much longer?” Most people have enough faith to trust God for a day. If God sorts it after a day they can be happy but fewer people have faith to trust God if it takes six or ten years.

In the kingdom there can only one can be Lord and trials of faith and patience, teach us that He is God and that we are dependent upon him. We can rejoice in trials, as they develop patience in us. Trials sometimes bring other things out of us. Not patience but anger. We really only have the character that we demonstrate in the midst of a trial. Anyone can look patient on a slow yacht in their holidays.
Friend, Paul had to learn to be content, so it didn’t happen overnight. He didn’t find it easily and neither will you, but we are never losers only learners. God doesn’t see as failures but only as His growing children.