Meditation on Patience and Flexibility

welcome back to another episode of

Christian Natural Health today I'm going

to be kind of meditating on a concept of

patients but a particular type of

patience uh so patients with just things

not going in your day the way that you

expect them too and I did a bible study

on this and was trying to figure out

what do I even search for because most

of the time when I'm looking up a

particular scripture uh concept I can go

to a lot of the main websites and I can

search for you know a topical or a

particular word or phrase or something

like that but in this case patients

generally is in scripture usually refers

to patience with people and that's not

really what I wanted to focus on so much

it's more the the concept of flexibility

when your schedule goes sideways uh and

this is something that I struggle with

which is the reason why I wanted to look

this up uh and so what the Lord led me

to was a couple of specific verses so

I'm just going to read them to you and

then talk about what they mean to me

essentially uh so the first one is

Ephesians 2:10 we are his workmanship

created in Christ Jesus for good works

which God prepared beforehand that we

should walk in them so to me what that

means is the idea that God has got

specific things that he wants each one

of us to do and I think a lot of us have

a tendency to create a lot of clutter in

our schedules a lot of extra things that

maybe he hasn't necessarily called us to

but we really want to get done and

sometimes that makes it difficult for us

to keep the main thing the main thing if

that makes sense so along those lines uh

a backup verse to that is Philippians

1:6 and which says and I am sure of this

that he who began a good work in you

will bring it to completion at the day

of Jesus Christ so that to me it has the

idea of the things that God specifically

calls me to do he's going to make sure

those things get done so I can have

faith and I can trust that if my

timeline my plans get disrupted he's

still going to make sure those things

happen and if it's something that he

never called me to do anyway who cares I

should probably let go of that and

that's where that form of patience and

flexibility I think comes in um and the

next one was 1 Corinthians

31-15 which says for other found no

other Foundation uh can no man lay other

than sorry uh for other Foundation can

no man lay then that is that is laid

which is Christ Jesus now if any man

build upon this Foundation gold Sil and

precious stones wood hay and stubble

Every Man's work shall be made manifest

for the day shall declare it because he

shall be revealed by fire and the fire

shall try every man's work of what sort

it is and if any man's work abide which

he hath built thereon thereup he shall

receive a reward and if any man's work

shall be burned he shall suffer loss but

he himself shall be saved yet so is by

fire so that it's talking about the day

of judgment where God will I mean we're

saved but our particular works are then

going to be judged as to whether or not

these are things that he gave us the the

gold silver and precious stones or if

this is the wood hay and stubble things

that we put on our own schedules that

maybe shouldn't necessarily have been

there and that also was in context of

the previous verses I was thinking more

in terms of okay so if my to-do list

ends up getting disrupted um but they're

things that were on my list and not

necessarily things that God gave me

those are wood hay and stubble anyway

the things that are the gold silver and

precious Stones I can trust that even if

it doesn't happen in my timeline or even

if I really wanted to accomplish it by a

particular date and that doesn't happen

if it's the gold silver and precious

stones the ones that he gave me he's

going to take care of that and I can put

that in the trust bucket something that

he's gonna he's going to deal with like

that's an area of Faith at that point

and along those lines uh so Romans 8:28

and we know that for those who love God

all things work together for good for

those who are called according to his

purpose and I'd always thought of that

verse just in the context of the really

big things the really big bad crap that

happens in life and you can't

necessarily plan for it but God's going

to work it all together for good and

it's that also but it fits for little

annoyances and little disruptions and

the little foxes that spoil the vineyard

as as Solomon talks about in The Song of

Solomon same concept this too he's going

to work together for good um another one

is John 15:16 you did not choose me but

I chose you and appointed you that you

should go and bear fruit and that your

fruit should abide so that whatever you

ask the father in my name he may give it

to you and one of the fruit we are to

bear at according to Galatians 5:22 is

the fruit of patience or longsuffering

and self-control too although I would

argue that in John 15 that's largely

talking about the fruit of answered

prayer but I think it all fits there too

uh Proverbs 16:32 better a patient

person than a warrior one with

self-control than one who takes a city

and that applies to all forms of

patience I think

uh Proverbs 14:29 says whoever is

patient has great understanding but one

who is quick-tempered displays Folly

Psalm 72 ver2 you say i cho I choose the

appointed time it is I who judge with

Equity this is God speaking obviously um

Ephesians 4:2 says be completely humble

and gentle be patient bearing with one

another in love Psalm 90:2 says teach us

to number our days that we may gain a

heart of

wisdom h yeah heart of wisdom like

numbering our days recognizing that our

days are few and I think it's easy to

then get a sense of I have to make every

moment count then and that's true too

like we need to to redeem the time for

the days are evil but there's it's both

sides to this we need to redeem the time

but at the same time we need to trust

that God is going to get us where we

need to go

essentially uh and James 413 to4 now

listen you who say today or tomorrow we

will go to that this or that City spend

spend a year there carry on business and

make money why you do not even know what

will happen tomorrow what is your life

you are a Mist that appears for a little

while and then vanishes so that is the

idea of making all your own plans and

not necessarily checking with the Lord

about it so side note I see an awful lot

of patients who come in just incredibly

busy and they can't find time to you

know do any of the basic life

maintenance things that they have to do

and the conversation there if they're a

Believer is nearly always what are you

doing that God hasn't called you to do

because there's guaranteed to be

something on that to-do list that he

didn't actually put there uh or else he

will give you the bandwidth if you tithe

your time essentially then he can make

your schedule expand so that it all fits

it's one of the two he's ultimately

going to make it all work out whether

it's that you need to jettison some of

the priorities that you thought you had

or whether it's that if you seek first

the kingdom of God as Matthew talks then

all these things will be added to you

it's it's one or the other or possibly a

combination of both uh and then

Ecclesiastes 1 3 to8 there is a time for

everything and a season for every

activity under the heavens a time to be

born and a time to die a time to plant

and a time to uproot A Time to Kill and

a time to heal a time to tear down and a

time to build a time to weep and a time

to laugh a time to mourn and a time to

dance a time to scatter stones and a

time to gather them a time to embrace

and a time to refrain from embracing a

time to search and a time to give up a

time to keep and a time to throw away a

time to tear and a time to mend a time

to be silent and a time to speak a time

to love and a time to hate a time for

war and a Time For Peace um Ecclesiastes

isn't really one of my favorite books

honestly my husband disagrees uh he

really likes it but um I find it a

little bit depressing but at the same

time it to me it's essentially a

depiction of

what the world is like without the Holy

Spirit uh because Solomon kind of went

sideways in later parts of his life but

he's supposed to be the wisest man who

ever lived and that's certainly true

that there's recognize that for every

season that we're in it's got a

particular purpose for that and you

don't necessarily have to do every

single thing all at

once and Proverbs 35-6 so this is kind

of core for nearly everything uh it's

one of my life verses I think trust in

the Lord with all your heart and lean

not on your own understanding in all

your ways acknowledge Him and He will

direct your paths um so those are the

verses that I feel like God showed me uh

as I was trying to pray about this

concept of patience and flexibility with

a schedule and I hope that was helpful

to you thank you for joining me

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