A Parent's PrayerНамуна

A Parent’s Prayer for Patience

Dear Jesus, you know how you once fed five thousand men with a boy’s meal and many of them became more concerned with their stomachs than their souls? That must have tested your patience.

And you know how your disciples kept arguing about which of them would be the greatest in heaven, even when your entire ministry had been a demonstration of humble service? Still, you never lost your cool.

And you know how the priests (who should have recognized you as the promised Savior, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world) were the very ones who rejected you and pinned you to a cross? Still you prayed over them, “Father, forgive.”

Lord, I am guilty of all those sins and more. I’m more concerned with my stomach than my soul. I’m reluctant to serve. I’m slow to confess my faith. I reject your will. I hold grudges. I lose control of my tongue and temper.

And yet you show me mercy.

Lord, thank you for your immense patience in my life. Let it put a smile on my face as I show patience to others. My children. My spouse. My coworkers. My government. Lead me to witness patiently of your mercy, so that others might come to believe. Amen.

“I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life” (1 Timothy 1:16).

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