Battling Impatience

My wise and wonderful wife Kari has written on “Battling Impatience” and how this pertains to the Christian life, and to our life as a family.

The opening:

Literally every battle that we face in our Christian walk is a battle against unbelief. Every battle against unbelief is an attack on our faith in God, which is an attack on His character. The oldest temptation in the world is the temptation to believe this lie: “God is not good. God is keeping something from you that is good. God doesn’t want you to have the best. God is not God.” When Adam and Even sinned in the garden, they believed this lie. They believed that God was somehow keeping them from something good.

And so it is today….

Read the rest…

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