Friday!

Proverbs!

A ruler can be persuaded through patience, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.

Proverbs 25:15 CSB

I don't like waiting. 

I don't like queues. 

Really, I just want the world to revolve around me. 

And here is this proverb giving another lesson in being patient, this time with those with power. 

Not just patient, but gentle with our words. 

Those things don't genuinely come from a heart that wants the world to revolve around it. 

To be patient and gentle with those who have power or authority and the implication here is that they need to change, means that I need a place to stand that is not dependent on me.

Here's my place:

Therefore, 

since we have been justified by faith, 

we have 

peace with God 

through 

our Lord Jesus Christ. 

We have also obtained access through him 

by faith 

into this grace 

in which we stand, 

and we boast in the hope of the glory of God.

Romans 5:1-2 CSB

Knowing who we are in Jesus shapes our hearts and gives us the place to stand, so that we can be gentle, we can wait, and this gives us the best strategy to see those in power shift, to change.

And even if they don't, the place, the person in whom we stand, the grace in which we stand is immovable, unshakeable, and we can rest in that.

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