A Quick Note! Patience, Trust, and Hope

Patience: Patience involves waiting and remembering that God is in control and He will do things His way in His timing (which is always perfect.) Patience involves allowing Him this authority in our lives without complaining. It's something I can work on. :)

Trust:  Trust is when we know everything we can at the moment. But sometimes it seems like we reach the dead end. All that's left are the things you are unsure about. Either you haven't learned it yet, or you have to wait for it, or there seems to linger an annoying doubt or uncertainty that seems to pull down on your ears. You can shake it off, but the thought just lingers a bit. Trust is knowing that, as humans, we can't do anything more. It's leaving the rest to God and believing that God is going to "remember" us as He "remembered" Noah. Not that He forgot him, but that God was ready to do the next thing. God doesn't leave anything unfinished.
Remember all those attributes we accredit to God in our songs and poetry: You are Good, you are my Peace, You are the King of Kings. Trusting Him is actually believing all of that. Knowing that, in the end, all things will be made clear and that we will be safe in God's arms and in the presence of Jesus.

Hope: Hope is patience for long-term promises that God has made. We have hope because without it, there would be no reason to live. Our hope is in the second coming of Jesus Christ. We long for the Kingdom to come with a deal of patience and in the meanwhile, we humbly spread the news to everyone we talk to. It will be a day where righteousness will overpower darkness, we will be dressed in white, and we will see our Lord face to face. All our needs and wants, immediately satisfied.