What benefit comes from practicing patience? What might God use the exercise of our endurance to produce in us? Might it be a way of God teaching us greater faith, or reliance on him? Might it teach us to seek God’s will more than our own? Might it test and strengthen our resolve?

Today, let us pray that God will use our longing and waiting for him to refine us according to his will. Let us pray that through our attentive patience, we will be further formed in the image of Jesus!