The In Touch Daily Devotional. Now available in easy to read large print. Order yours today. male announcer: “In Touch,” the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley. Next on “In Touch,” “Patience: Essential to Experiencing God’s Best.” Dr. Charles Stanley: When you trusted Jesus Christ as your personal savior, immediately the Holy Spirit came into your life to seal you as a child of God.
That’s the reason we know that we are eternally secure. It is His work and not our conduct that makes us acceptable to God. And in the process of doing so, when I think about that, I think about the fact that the Holy Spirit sealed us and equipped us to do whatever He’s called us to do. Many people will live out their life in church, baptized early in life, heard lots and lots of sermons, and will never understand that God never intended for them to live the Christian life.
He didn’t. He intended for them to allow the Holy Spirit, who lives within them, to live out the life of the Lord Jesus Christ. So we are not only equipped with salvation, He’s equipped us to do whatever He’s called us to do, whatever He has made us to be and made us to do. So when you think about your life, and you think about the challenges you face, remember this, that you are already empowered by the Holy Spirit to live and to face any situation, any circumstance of life.
He didn’t just save us and let us get along the best we can. So when you think about your life and you think about things you face, when you face difficulties, would you say that you’re a patient person? And the truth is, all of us probably have areas of our life that it’s difficult for us to stand by or hold back what we think or what we’d like to do.
But patience is a gift from God. But it isn’t something we work up. It is a gift of God through the Holy Spirit. When you were saved, He sealed you as one of His children, and He began to release in your life, if you will allow Him, the fruit of the Spirit. Love, joy, peace, patience. And so that’s what I want to talk about.
I want to talk about this whole issue of how essential it is that you and I experience God’s patience in our life, because it affects every single thing we do. And one of His primary objectives is to enable us to walk patiently in our Christian life. So, listen to this. Psalm 27:14. “Wait for the Lord, be strong, and let your heart take courage; yes, wait for the Lord.
