Patience – the first attribute of our Father’s Holy, eternal love as testified to in Roms 9:22- 24:
Roms 9:22-24: 22 What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? 23 And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, 24 even us, whom He also called (Roms 8:28- 30), not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles – Roms 2:14(11,-15).
There is no greater testimony of the first attribute of our Father’s Holy, uncreated, always existent, infinite love for us as His elect children being the attribute of patience (I Cor 13:4-8a; I Jn 4:7-8) than the testimony here proclaimed in Roms 9:22-24. In His infinite immutable love for His elect children, each of whom He has placed in their specific place in time & space, on the stage of human history exactly as He predestined, foreordained & created (Ps 139:16(all); Acts 17:26 (24-28), He is patiently transitioning each new day, in the fullness of time, from His created depository of “time future” to “time present” to “time past”, moving us always forward on the stage of human history & as such, inherently closer to our time of home going, either by natural death or by the glorious return of our precious Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ. In the light of this glorious reality, He has & continues to Sovereignly accomplish His Holy plan of redeeming grace, one fresh, inherently beautiful, inherently good, inherently perfect patiently fulfilled new day at a time -Ps 118:24; Mt 6:33-34 (25-34). Each new day is indeed, inherently perfect in the sense that it is fulfilled/completed exactly as our Holy Creator God & Father predestined, foreordained & created it to be before time began – Titus 1:1-3; II Tim 1:9; Ephs 1:3-6.