You’ve always heard the phrase, “Patience is a virtue”.  This is a true statement.  It is a good attribute to have to be patient.  I praise the Lord that He gave me the opportunity to be patient behind a slow driver last night.  I was able to immediately practice what i just preached.  Take a look at Ephesians 4:1-2 again.

Notice how we are to treat our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.  It starts out saying that we must “walk in a manner WORTHY of the calling with which you have been called”.  This means that we need to be Christians WORTHY of being called Christians.  God did not call us out of our sin to just dive right back in.  He called us to live up to His moral standard of holiness.  In love, patience is one of those virtues that we MUST demonstrate. 

There are three ways that we can do this.  Try putting these into practice this week.

1.  Putting in love in the place of selfishness (Philippians 2:3-4)

2.  Putting in understanding in the place of harshness (James 1:19)

3.  Putting in forgiveness in the place of grudges (Matthew 18:21-22)