Kyle Cummings - Outside Reading #4

So this was not really derived from a reading but rather a personal experience. I was having a rather rough couple of weeks, months, or maybe years, and I was tired of being patient and I realized that the patience I had was not really useful because it focused on short term goals like finishing a semester, or a paper, or dealing with problems with friends or roommates. This kind of patience only works for short term acceptance and really is not patience at all but rather just me sweeping my problems under the carpet. I read through the Bible from time to time (not nearly as much as I should), and I began to realize that the patience the Bible refers to is no just waiting on God to answer a prayer or waiting for wisdom etc, but it is also an eternal patience. I feel like my life has been a string of mediocre events sprinkled with sparse awesomeness, and I know that I will not be truly and fully satisfied until I am living a second life with the one who has bought me with his blood. So I realized that I need an eternal patience on earth for the awesomeness that I will one day have in heaven. I'm not saying by any means that I am just coasting through life until I die, but my dissatisfactions and frustrations are quelled in knowing that I must be patient while waiting for a later date.