Patiently Waiting

Rereading a good book called "Battlefield of the mind" by Joyce Meyer, good stuff in the chapter about waiting & patience. It says patience is not the ability to wait, it is the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting. Scripture doesnt say be patient IF you wait, it says be patient AS you wait. We need to learn to enjoy where we are while we are on our way to where we are going. John 16:33 says In the world you have tribulation & trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer. For I have overcome the world. Learn to respond patiently in all kinds of trials, and you will find yourself living a quality of life that is not just endured but enjoyed to the full. There are multitudes of unhappy unfulfilled Christians in the world simply because they are busy trying to make something happen, instead of waiting patiently for God to bring things to pass in His own time and His own way. Instead of pridefully taking matters into our own hands, we must learn to humble ourselves under Gods mighty hand. When He knows that the time is right, He will exalt us & lift us up. As we wait on God & refuse to move in fleshy zeal, there is a "dying to self" that takes place. We begin to die to our own ways and our own timing & to become alive to God's will and way for us.