Patience means the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset. If you notice in this verse from Romans 12:12 NIV, patience is sandwiched between hope and prayer; “Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” Last Tuesday Deborah talked on spiritual disciplines and prayer was one of those disciplines. When you are short on patience, do you go to the Lord in prayer?

Patience otherwise known as forbearance is also a fruit of the spirit; “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Gal‬ ‭5:22-23‬ ‭NIV‬. Just like eating real fruit, the fruits of the spirit should be a daily spiritual discipline. On this Transformation Tips Tuesday, I encourage us all to write down at least one of the fruits that we will work on this week through our spiritual disciplines. Which one would you choose to work on?

I can imagine these flowers pictured here have taken several years to grow into the beauty they hold today. Imagine the beauty we can hold when we choose to work on our patience or any of the other eight fruits. Will you remember to sandwich your patience between hope and prayer? Let’s all go and be transformed in God’s beauty today.