Character Matters | Willing To Wait - 1 Samuel 13:2-14 - Clint Leavitt

Sermon Resources: 1. “Welcome to the internet! Have a look around; Anything that brain of yours can think of can be found; We've got mountains of content, some better, some worse; If none of it's of interest to you, you'd be the first…Could I interest you in everything all of the time? A little bit of everything all of the time? Apathy's a tragedy, and boredom is a crime. Anything and everything, all of the time.” -Bo Burnham, Welcome To The Internet 2. “Impatience is inner restlessness…experiencing the moment as empty, useless, meaningless. It is wanting to escape from the here and now as soon as possible.” -Henri Nouwen, Donald McNeill, and Douglas Morrison, Compassion: A Reflection on the Christian Life 3. “After the war I moved to India, just as Partition was tearing the nation apart. In that land of poverty and omnipresent suffering I learned that pain can be borne with dignity. It was there, too, that I began treating leprosy patients, social pariahs whose tragedy stems from the absence of physical pain…In the United States, a nation whose war for independence was fought in part to guarantee a right to “the pursuit of happiness,” I encountered a society that seeks to avoid distress at all costs. Patients lived at a greater comfort level than any I had previously treated, but they seemed far less equipped to handle suffering and far more traumatized by it.” -Dr. Paul Brand, Pain: The Gift Nobody Wants 4. “Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.” -Simone Weil, Notebooks of Simone Weil 5. “The work that God does in us when we wait is often more important than the thing for which we wait.” -Erwin Lutzer 6. “The word patience never means the spirit which sits with folded hands and simply bears things. It is victorious endurance and constancy under trial. It is Christian steadfastness, the brave and courageous acceptance of everything life can do to us, and the transmuting of even the worst into another step on the upward way. It is the courageous and triumphant ability to bear things, which enables someone to pass breaking point and not to break, and always to greet the unseen with a cheer.” -William Barclay, Letters of Peter and Jude