I wish I had patience.

You know like that kind of patience that your mom had every time you would whine for no reason other than you felt like it? Or the kind of patience your dad had every time you asked him if he would play Pretty, Pretty Princess with you.

I wish I had the patience for other people like God has for me.

About a year ago Priscilla Shirer gave a talk about how God's patience is limitless and it honestly shook me to my core.

Think about it – God spends all this time loving us and taking the time to work with us that absolutely no one else ever could even imagine being able to do that.

Even our parents would eventually get annoyed with our tantrums and put an end to them with a reward or with a punishment, but God never does.

God has never looked at us and said: "I am not playing that game with you."

It's actually mind blowing how God never gets tired of us. Ever.

"The Lord is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations." Numbers 14:18

That is God's patience. God's love. God's faithfulness to us.

His love for us is so abundant that it stretches farther than any ocean or galaxy.

He is so good to us that we don't even have the ability to realize his goodness and the best part? We didn't even have to do anything to deserve it. The only thing we have to do is accept his love and mercy.

There is so much space between where we are now and where God has planned for us to be, but thankfully he has the patience and love to stay with us and walk with us.

One part of Priscilla's talk that really stood out was when she said: "We feel like that since patience is so difficult for us that God must have trouble with it too." Just because we run out of patience for others, doesn't mean God runs out of patience for us.

No one had to teach God patience.

How great is that? The one thing that every single human struggles with the most is one of the many things God has an abundance of. The thing many Christians pray for in every prayer they pray is one of the many things God looks at us and says "I am here with you as you develop your patience."

He is patient with us as he teaches us patience. Bringing us through trials and what seems like never-ending tears in order to show us patience doesn't come easy, but when it comes it is so sweet.

"But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life." 1 Timothy 1:16