1 Corinthians 13:4 Love is patient 

What I know is what has been revealed to me and what has happened in this life with Christ.

I was young, that is no excuse, but the nature of a child is impatience. I wanted more than the peace that was given to me. I wanted more. My problem like so many that are immature was that I did not know what to ask for.

Matthew 20:22 Jesus answered, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?” They said to him, “We are able.”

His disciples had been with Him  for three years and they still had no clue as to what He meant. In my early years I was like that also. I had no clue of what was going to be required of me to get more. So I said “Give me more of You!” His answer was so true, “You do not know what you are asking.”

• Luke 8:15 As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.
• Romans 2:7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;
• Romans 8:25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

In the ESV the word patience is only used once in the Old Testament and only twenty-one times in the New. Patience means more to a new creation than the old self. It is the first descriptor of love. God is patient, but we have to learn patience, it is not a gift.

Romans 5:2-4 1599 Geneva Bible

2 By whom also through faith we have had this access into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice under the hope of the glory of God.

3 Neither that only, but also we rejoice in tribulations, knowing that tribulation bringeth forth patience.

4 And patience experience, and experience hope.

The predecessor to the KJV made it clear that patience is character developed and then patience produces experience. The immature have not yet experienced what it takes to get to where we know the will of God for our lives.

This is another one of those mysteries in this life with Christ. We do not know the will of God the Father for each of us and what we must endure to discover His will.

Be careful what you ask for.

Psalm 123 English Standard Version

1 To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens!
2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, till he has mercy upon us.

3 Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us, for we have had more than enough of contempt.
4 Our soul has had more than enough of the scorn of those who are at ease, of the contempt of the proud.

Contempt is our follow up after yesterday’s scoffer. Contempt is a two edged sword. We can and often feel contempt for the scoffer who has treated us unjustly. Our common use of the word is often associated with “contempt of court” where the judge issues a warning first and if the behavior continues, the violator is held in contempt.

This is a short psalm copied in full and it has a very distinct message. Jesus has been enthroned and when we look up to Him we must not do so with contempt. Before you say we do not allow me to share the verse of the day from my bible software.

Romans 13:1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.

My God, how could you have allowed these contemptuous leaders to be in charge around the world?

The cost of free will is loss of control when it comes to consequences.

Luke 6:35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

“But Lord I don’t understand.” Is what my mind says.

His reply. “Yes. I know.”

Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

When we lean on something and it is pulled out from under us, we fall.