Be Loving and Patient

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Welcome to Insights on Healing, a weekly Podcast. Our Episode title is, “ Be loving and Patient.” You will learn how to love others, be patient with them and the benefits you will reap from doing good.

I am Joan M. Blake, author, and I am your host. The purpose of Insights on Healing podcast is to provide content that brings inner healing and restoration to individuals dealing with trauma and difficult life situations.

Insights on healing podcast includes the reading of scripture, praying for my audience, reading from one of my books or interviewing individuals who found purpose through the healing power of God. I pray that God would bless you and give you hope as you listen to this episode,

Today’s podcast is taken from Galatians 6:9-10. I am reading from the NIV version of the Bible.

Galatians 6:9-10

9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.

Who am I addressing today? Are you a stay-at-home mom caring for a special-needs child/adult or an elderly parent? Are you a teacher working with special-needs children or children who have difficulty learning? Are you a mom working  extremely hard on a job and supervising a staff? Are you a nurse/ nurse-practitioner, psychiatrists, working with patients, and you feel burnt out? Are you providing in-home care for elderly patients? Whatever situation you find yourself in, I believe that this message is for you.

Working with someone, whether it is your own child or your elderly parent, can be draining. I know this for a fact because I have been caring for my special-needs daughter for many years. She is able to walk and talk, but she can become resistant sometimes and I feel like throwing in the towel, but God is telling me to be calm, loving, and be patient. Maybe, you have a resistant parent, student, patient, or staff member, but God is telling you to use another strategy to encourage them all to comply with what you are helping them to achieve. We are speaking about love and patience.

When you love someone, you love them the same way as God loves you. Sometimes, we love someone based on their actions, but what if that person’s actions do not measure up to our expectations? That is the problem many of us face. In Mark 12:30 God says that you and I should love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. In verse 31,God commands us to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. Love is unconditional and not based on a person’s actions. Can you look at yourself and say that you truly love someone from a pure heart? I want to be transparent and say I am a work in progress.

I believe when you love someone, you become patient with that person. The Bible states in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 that, ⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

So, moms, caretakers, teachers dealing with special-need children/adults, workers working with mental health patients, or the elderly, women working as supervisors or managers dealing with a staff or a boss that is demanding, love those who are in authority over you and the ones to whom you supervise. Because love leads to patience and kindness, put on love which will sustain and keep you for a long time to come.. God will perfect you and you will reap a harvest if you do not give up. God is who gives the harvest so He may give you long life, raises on your job, and/or healing.

Reflection:

We learned that whatever we face in our own households, on the job or wherever we go, we must exercise love and patience with all. We should not be weary of doing well, for we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Love is a command set by God  in Mark 12:30-31 to love God and our neighbor. Love leads to kindness and patience. We love unconditionally just as God loves us.

Let us pray:

Father, I pray in the name of Jesus, for all mothers: stay at home as well as working mothers who deal with children/adults, patients, students, and staff, that you will give them strength to cope with their constituents Lord. I ask Lord, that you will give them wisdom and understanding to know that love is patient and that when they exercise patience and love that their constituents will be better able to cope and they will become better providers or managers, not weary in well doing or wanting to give up, but able to reap a harvest in due season.

Thank you for listening to “Insights on “Healing” Podcast. If you like the Podcast, please be sure to click the subscribe button on my website at joanmblake.com. You can also subscribe wherever you listen to your favorite podcast. May God bless and keep you in Jesus’ name, Amen.