Patience

I have been reading Romans this week. What a book. I have not been faithful in my time with God and beginning again feeds me so much. I was reading Romans and then I began writing a letter to a friend. I was commiting on how the boys are behaving a little better every day, but when they are tired their old habits come back. They begin to argue and hit one another. I try to have patience with them because I know they are tired but I still have to separate them and sometimes send them to their rooms.
This made me think about how about God and how he is patient with us. We get tired. We struggle through things and our defensives break down, and that sin we have been struggling with happens again. But God is always patient with us. He knows we are tired. And like the boys, I want them to behave properly, God wants us to follow Christ's example and behave like him. And sometimes we are separated and put into different rooms until we cool down. But, God is always there supporting us and encouraging us to do better.
I have heard people say that you begin to understand God as a father when you have children, and they are right. God has shown me how patient he is and how much he is there for us when we are hurting, even if it is only a stubbed toe or a paper cut.