2nd Fruit: God’s Will is Patient
God’s Will is always Patient (reflected in column #2 in the example-charts on pages 70-72), making your actions Purpose-fully conscious as opposed to merely emotionally reactionary (“Be Alert; I have already told you everything … And what I say to you I say to everyone: Keep Awake.” ~ Jesus in Mark 13:23+37) … The Way encourages us to pro-actively participate in life by making choices and then consciously performing them. Our ego-based personality, on the other hand, tempts us to retreat and hide from all such bold, intimate decisions (“The ones on rock are those who … have no root; believing only mentally and falling away [from the Word] in times of testing … But as for those in the Good Soil, these are the ones who, when they Hear the Word, they hold it fast in an honest and Good Heart, and then bear Fruit with patient endurance.” ~ Jesus in Luke 8:13+15) … This latter “small self” encourages us to believe either that we have no choice at all or that we should wait to choose. Harmonious options, on the other hand, are always active – never passive (“But those who look into the Perfect Law – the Law of Liberty – and persevere, being not mere hearers who forget but doers who act, they will be blessed in their Doing.” ~ James 1:25). As such, truly divine Patience is always applicative – never analytical …
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