developing patience

今天一邊寫的時候，有小小洩氣。

但上帝對我的洩氣，在讀經﹑查經﹑晚上靈修，說話三次，同一個主題。

在午間的查經說第一次，忍耐

晚上讀經文羅馬書，提醒這是一個"developing patience"的時間，而且不是一般的patience，是passionate patience，可能是因為上帝使我寬廣，在忍耐之中，是"standing tall and shouting our praise"，好有活力的忍耐

By entering through faith into what God has always wanted to do for us—set us right with him, make us fit for him—we have it all together with God because of our Master Jesus. And that's not all: We throw open our doors to God and discover at the same moment that he has already thrown open his door to us. We find ourselves standing where we always hoped we might stand—out in the wide open spaces of God's grace and glory, standing tall and shouting our praise.

There's more to come: We continue to shout our praise even when we're hemmed in with troubles, because we know how troubles can develop passionate patience in us, and how that patience in turn forges the tempered steel of virtue, keeping us alert for whatever God will do next. In alert expectancy such as this, we're never left feeling shortchanged. Quite the contrary—we can't round up enough containers to hold everything God generously pours into our lives through the Holy Spirit!

--- Romans 5:1-5 The Message (MSG)

最後，看靈修短篇的時候，是關於"direction of discipline"

oh，收到了，於是心裏再沒有complaint，因為所想的，祂在察看。