Thank You for Your Patience
Patient Father,
How exhausting it must be for you to look on us and see how slow we are to grow in our faith and sanctified living. Your patience with us is unrivaled! Thank you for not writing me off or giving up on me.
Do not let me mistake your patience for permission, however. I never want to take your patience for granted or presume that because you haven’t turned your back on me, it doesn’t really matter how I live. Instead, I pray that your patience prompts my desire to please you even more in every way. May the grace that you continually grant me serve to spur on my good deeds and shape my sanctification. Pass a rich measure of your patience along to me as well, that I might show the same lenience to others that you extend to me.
In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.