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ETERNITY'S CHILD Evening Devotionals to the Most High God _____________ A Sacred Series of Nighttime Meditations by Dennis Chamberland |
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May 18 Patience in
Ministering Love God created
each Christian alike in many ways.
Through His immutable and wholly mysterious plan, He created us as
sinners, and then He saved us eternally from ourselves. And while He wiped our sins away through the
blood of our Lord Master, we are still transgressors as He ever lives to make
intercession for us each day –
day after day – before
the Father. (Hebrews 7:25) So while we
work each day ministering to the needs of the family of God, sometimes the
family is most difficult to minister to.
More often than not, all those sinners in the family can be most
challenging day by day! And just as
God's patience with us is eternal and perfect, so is our patience to be toward
God's precious sheep as described in Hebrews 6:10-12: "For God
is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown
toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the
saints. And we desire that each one of
you show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope until
the end, so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who
through faith and patience inherit the promises." Often times it is family who require the most patience of all – not only
in our homes but in our church homes as well.
But we show them endless patience because we mirror to them what our
Lord Master does for us each day before the Father's throne. And all that patience is framed by a
powerful, epic Love. Indeed, it is a supernatural Love that saturates us and them, that flows
from our hearts in an endless river of life from the Spirit of Love and Life to
us and then out to those who need that Love so desperately – and to those who
need our patience as urgently as we need His!
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