And how does He grant our prayers for patience? By giving us lots of opportunities to practice it.
And YES! He has given us a new 'nature', a new self, which is oriented toward Him and sustained by Him. So, as I may have said earlier, if we stumble forward, at least we're stumbling in the right direction.
Thanks for this, boatbums.
Stumbling in the right direction.
Stumbling for sure...Right direction ...not so much.