Patience 2

(Psa 95:10 KJV)  Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

(Proverbs 4 also read)

How do you define patience?  How long do you wait for results?  We live in the day of instant gratification.  We live in the day of instant communication.  We live in the day of instant oatmeal.  How satisfying is all of that?

But God was not seeking gratification, He was seeking obedience, love.  He was waiting patiently for Israel to grow up.  40 years He waited.  At least that seems to be the way you would read this.  My thinking was that He was waiting for them to die because of their disobedience, but this puts a little bit of a different spin on it.  Is this saying that if Israel had repented in the wilderness, they would have been able to go into the promised land?  It sounds that way to me.

So?  God is patient.  He was patient with Israel.  He will be patient with us.