Patience in Process
Slow growth is still growth.
God isn't in a hurry. Why are you?
The big idea
What grows fast usually doesn't last. What lasts grows slow.
What does “Patience in Process” walk through?
He Who Began Will Finish
Philippians 1:6 · KJV
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.
In plain English
I'm sure of this: God started a good work in you, and he'll finish it.
He Started It
If God started the work in you, he's responsible for finishing it. Your job isn't to fast-track yourself into perfection. Your job is to keep showing up. The growing is his.
A Time for Everything
Ecclesiastes 3:1 · KJV
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
In plain English
Everything has a season. Each part of life has its proper time.
“Slow growth is the only growth that lasts.”
Trust the Slow
Comparison kills. Stop measuring your year-three against someone else's year-fifteen. You're not behind. You're in process. The God who started will finish. He's never rushed.
Pray
Father, grow me at your pace, not the world's. Help me not despise small progress. The slow becoming is still becoming.
Write it down
Where are you getting impatient with your own growth? What would it look like to trust the process?
You finished: Patience in Process
Slow is sustainable. Show up tomorrow. The growth is real even when it's quiet.
Which passages does this journey use?
2 passages, drawn from Philippians 1:6, Ecclesiastes 3:1. Every verse appears here in the King James text with a plain-English line beside it, so you can read it without a commentary open. Allow about 5 minutes for the whole thing, or 6 short sittings.
- Philippians 1:6
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
Read any of these in full on the complete KJV, or look the wording up independently at Blue Letter Bible.
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