AFTER you've have done the will of God...

I came across a scripture that really hit home this morning. The scripture is Hebrews 10:36 where it says, "For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise."

I don't know about you, but I have a real hard time with the "patience part." For me, doing the will of God is NOT nearly as much of a challenge as the patiently waiting part AFTER I've done the will of God. But the writer of Hebrews made it painfully clear that our obligation after doing the will of God was to have patience on the arrival of "the promise!"

Another writer said it like this, "let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not" (Galatians 6:9). In other words, we CAN'T do God's part and He WON'T do our part, so after we've done what we supposed to do we "wait PATIENTLY!" And guess what? When it's time (according to God's timing, NOT ours) the harvest will come; what God has promised will come!

Here's one more scripture to encourage you: (Isaiah 40:31) says, "they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint."

AFTER you've done the will of God...have PATIENCE!