WE CAN BE PATIENT BECAUSE
THE LORD IS FAITHFUL
In May of 2017, it was
slow at work, but I was able to find a few things to do to keep busy. However,
in about a week and a half, I started to get low on new ideas. It’s a good
thing the Lord is faithful. He took this opportunity to teach me to be patient.
It’s not that my boss doesn’t want me to work; He does. But I like to do tasks
that will be profitable. We didn’t have any samples to work on, and I hate
standing around trying to look like I’m busy. So Jesus came through for me and
gave me new tasks to do.
Isaiah 48:6-7 says: “I
have shown thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst
not know them. They are created now and not from the beginning, even before the
day when thou heardest them not, lest thou shouldest say, ‘Behold, I knew
them.’” I sure couldn’t brag about coming up with the new projects to make our
work easier or more efficient. It was the Lord who gave me ideas, one at a
time, and as I got started on one, He led me step by step into the next part,
or into an entirely new project. It was amazing.
At the beginning of this
slow time, I had no idea of the ideas He would give me. One after another, the
innovations came. There was the rattle can inventory—over 100 cans of spray
paint! I wanted to be able to see what they’d look like once sprayed, but how
was I going to do it in a neat and useful way? Ephesians 1:8 says: “He hath abounded toward us in all wisdom.” I love the
way The Amplified Version puts it: “In all wisdom and understanding with
practical insight.” I needed that practical insight in this situation.
The Holy
Spirit gave me the idea to make a template with a small square-shaped opening
just big enough to spray the paint through and show what the color looked like.
So I divided up the colors in different categories and had three templates
going at once. (In dry time, I experimented with some wild color spray paint
covers for my new books.)
Once I
finished that project, I wondered what would be next. Lamentations 3:22-26
says:
“It is through the Lord’s
mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are
new every morning; great is Thy faithfulness.
“‘The Lord is my
portion,’ saith my soul, ‘Therefore will I hope in Him.’ The Lord is
good unto them that wait for Him, to the soul that seeketh Him.
“It is good that a man
should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.”
The word “salvation” also
means “satisfaction.” When we seek the Lord and quietly wait, when we are
patient, we will experience satisfaction. I was learning to believe in God’s
faithfulness to me. He would keep me working, keep giving me new things to do,
not just to busy my time, but things that would be helpful to us in the shop
later on. So I was patient.
Again the Lord got me started
on another task I didn’t see coming. I looked around and saw that I could
organize the cans of paint on the shelves and label the shelves so that it
would be easier and faster to find what we needed. When I started marking the
shelves, one thing led to another; the labeling got more detailed, making the
task of finding things even more efficient. It made me happy to be doing
something that was going to be beneficial, something that in normal working
mode, we would never have the time to accomplish. But, of course, Jesus knew
that!
In this slow time at work,
the Lord is taking the opportunity to teach me about His faithfulness to me and
showing me that I really can be patient and like it.
Love, Carolyn
WINGS: A JOURNEY WITH
JESUS. You’ll love the stories. You’ll laugh and cry and be invigorated and
inspired.
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