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!