Patience Is Fruit of the Spirit

This week's reflection comes out of a week of seeing God's faithfulness to His promises come to fruition.  For the most part, I feel like I am an impatient person. This is something God has worked on in my over the years, after all, patience is fruit of the Spirit.  In my most recent promises from God, He spent 5 years for one and 3 years for another to bring them to completion.  I'm learning to watch for the details along the path that reiterate God's promise.  There are moments when I see His handiwork and recognize that He is on the move.  It isn't easy to wait.  As a matter of fact, it's really hard.  I've been seeking the very next point on my timeline, so to speak.  I've been asking God each day to show me what is the very next step I need to take, rather than looking down the line and trying to get to the finish as quickly as possible.  There has been invaluable experience in the slow movement of God.  I see Him working out details that I would never have thought to want or realized that I needed. When God seems slow, I've learned to watch carefully for Him in the seemingly mundane and recognize those moments that you know only God could have orchestrated.  It's been an interesting week, but a good one. The promise is being fulfilled and the Lord's faithfulness has not failed.  Spiritual fruit comes in the midst of a great journey, rarely on the fast track.