/31-days-of-bible-verses-about-patience-ecclesiastes-78/ Fri, 07 Oct 2016 12:52:18 +0000 hourly 1 /31-days-of-bible-verses-about-patience-ecclesiastes-78/#comment-8727 Fri, 07 Oct 2016 04:12:08 +0000 /?p=5543#comment-8727 Beautiful reflection and insight Carmel

]]> /31-days-of-bible-verses-about-patience-ecclesiastes-78/#comment-8716 Thu, 06 Oct 2016 15:51:53 +0000 /?p=5543#comment-8716 The bible translation I usually go to when I don’t understand a verse is the Good News Translation. It says, “The end of something is better than its beginning. Patience is better than pride.” It does not connect the two verses. I think maybe the publishers couldn’t figure it out. 🙂 I like where you were going with the closet cleaning story. It sort of reminded me of Jesus’ parable about counting the cost of discipleship (the story about the guy who started to build a tower and then ran out of money to finish it — that seemed prideful too). Even in discipleship, we can start out with a prideful attitude (“I’m gonna be a saint — the best disciple of Jesus”) and then end up falling away from our spiritual practices or getting back into the old sins we used to commit. Maybe in these instances (our attitudes, ambitions) we should be patient with ourselves and realize we are human. Maybe, we should be patient and let the Lord show us the way to begin. “If Yahweh does not build the house, in vain the masons toil; if Yahweh does not guard the city, in vain the sentries watch.” (Psalm 127:1)

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