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God Isn’t in a Hurry: Learning to Slow Down and Live is unavailable, but you can change that!

Why doesn’t God work more quickly? Can he have a purpose for making me slow down? Here is encouragement for those times when you are impatient with your Christian walk. In our instant society where we eat microwaveable meals and see serious problems resolved in less than half an hour on TV sitcoms, we resist waiting on the Lord. Yet God uses trials to test our patience and cultivate fruit in...

Although I was weary from a long flight, the sign on the mission guesthouse bulletin board made me laugh aloud. It said, “Lord, please make me patient—and do it right now.” Patience was one of the first lessons we had to learn in childhood. The child who does not learn to be patient is not likely to learn much of anything else. It takes patience to learn to read, to spell, to write, and to master multiplication tables. It even takes patience to grow! God has ordained that maturity
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