Divine Patience of the Genius

"The Divine patience of genius."       ~  Balzac

Divine patience.  I am sorely lacking.  And yet in my lacking, I still do consent the patience of genius is divine - it is a gift, gifted from above.  Perseverance.  Tenacious tendency to stay the course, to purposely persevere in pursuit of His gifted genius.  It is all from above.

The patience is entirely divine and the genius is certainly His and in its totality - this divine patience of genius - it is entirely gifted.

And I do believe this divine patience and divine genius lies within the spirt of every Spirit-filled man and woman.

For it was foretold of each of these Spirit-filled beings . . .

". . . who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ."   

                       ~  Ephesians 1:3

Every spiritual blessing.  Every spiritual gift.  Every ounce of divine genius and the necessary divine patience lies within your spirit-man (if you are born again).  It is sadly dormant in the majority, but yet, the reality of its presence is still truth.

The genius to create masterpiece to worship the Master, the gifted gifts to craft the words or spill the paint or to teach the masses, to compose medley beautiful and ornate - all the necessary genius lays within your bosom - the Word has plainly told us so.

Your genius may have been gifted in the equations of sums or it may lay in the way you whisper Spirit words in the ear of a wounded little one (the so desperately needed care of the least of these).

The genius is vast, it sojourns the expanse of the universe for Master Genius was creative beyond imagination.  And with the width of the genius and the depth of the brilliance it is ALL for such as this - the glory of the Divine.

Our culture's propensity to squander the genius renders all somewhat dull - the lustre has been lost from our longing to look long. 

We have turned from the divine patience.  Squandered the perseverance from above.

Genius is all but gone.

And yet, genius was gifted from the Giver and the Gifter can not lie.  Genius lies quietly, patiently waiting for us to decide - to decide to do it all differently.  To grasp the divine patience with a mad-fury and determine to allow the divine to kindle the flame of genius yet again.

Gospel is genius!  It is divine brilliance!  And the genius Gospel is ours for the grasping.  

Now, we must lay hold and work the patience of the Giver and persevere into the long night hour and begin to feel the warmth of radiance divine - the kindling and sparking of fire from on high.

It is a choice, we all must decide.  Our society and all that plagues our minds will lead to the dulling of the mind, a darkening of the divine creativity.  It will cause your spirit to slumber and your genius to be all but gone.

What say you this day?  The slothful slumber of sickly society or the Divine patience of genius gifted to you.