Not every trial comes to crush you; many come to reveal what is in your heart.
The impatient person wants everything to change immediately: people, circumstances, and even God’s work. But God works like rain that slowly soaks into the earth. What grows quickly withers quickly; what matures through patience takes deep root.
Patience is not weakness but the strength to remain steadfast when the soul is tempted to flee, complain, or despair. It does not always change circumstances, but it changes the one who endures them.
The one who endures with prayer begins to see that God is never late; He works at the right time. Grace does not hurry, because God’s love is never hurried. He first prepares the heart, and then He opens the doors.
Do not ask only for the trial to end. Ask that through it there may be born within you a peace that does not depend on circumstances.
“By your patience possess your souls.” (Luke 21:19)
