Discipline Yourselves

Discipline yourselves, keep alert. Like a roaring lion your adversary the devil prowls around, looking for someone to devour. Resist him, steadfast in your faith, for you know that your brothers and sisters in all the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering. And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, support, strengthen, and establish you. To him be the power forever and ever. Amen.

1 Peter 5:8-11

The God of all grace works in all His children, humbling the proud and exalting the humble, to make them ripe and sweet. Our task is to take hold of God’s grace to endure our afflictions with patience, without growing weary.

In God’s time he will mold us to where He wants us to be. His fire will strengthen us so that we can be good witnesses for what He has done in our lives. In the meantime, wait. It will all come in His time. Just have the courage to wait, and He will show you the way.

Salvation is the miracle of a moment;

growth is the labor of a lifetime.

Our Daily Bread – October 26, 2006