.: patience and purity :.

Over the years, both patience and purity have been two very difficult things. It takes courage to be patient and strength to be pure. Everyday we face choices and battles. When we wage war and endure through trial, we will learn to suffer well and suffer long. I long thought that purity was something you put on, like a coat, showing you’re not defiled or won’t be. I’ve come to realize that purity is not like this.

We are all defiled and every choice we make separates us from the very hand of our existence. Purity and patience, when joined together, are not things we possess or put on, they are things we live. Purity and patience should be our lifestyle. The choices we make come from a deep sense of security, knowing that we all fall short of perfection but must strive for it in all that we do.

We make choices not because they are the right things to do, but because they are what we have spent years coming to realize and believe in. From purity, we must first live out patience. Patience, which knows things are working out even when we feel like we cannot take any more silence. The more we wait, the more we hope and pray to the one above that he is working things out for our joy.

We must make choices to bring safety both to ourselves and those we hold close. We do not do these things to gain love or receive an ego stroke, we do these things because of the everlasting grace that is our existence. We should strive for purity as we wait for natural things to become evident and have a feeling of clarity as we attempt to be devoted to those we love.

We may never see the benefits of either patience or purity. We may always be waiting and always strive for purity in all action, thought, idea, and motive; but when we persevere, we all should know that our striving is not losing. Victory is found when we strive for things, not just in the culmination of things. When we strive for traits like purity and patience wholeheartedly, we find that the ultimate prize is our joy.

This joy is found in the glorification of our Maker. Finding complete joy in him shows that he is worthy to be enough for us so we can endure and persevere. We face choices everyday, the ones we make today effect the ones we will make tomorrow. Knowing that if we stay the course, with eyes fixed on the prize, we can and will find victory in the joy that is eternity. This joy builds in our patience and builds because of our purity so we may be complete, lacking in nothing.

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