Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hello, welcome to your Daily Grace by Timothy Wilder.
Grace is patient with process.
Many of you may not know that I lost my right leg below the knee due to complications from diabetes.
[00:00:15] Speaker B: And if there's one thing that journey
[00:00:16] Speaker A: has taught me, it's healing has a process. You can't rush.
[00:00:21] Speaker B: No amount of straining, trying or striving
[00:00:24] Speaker A: could hasten the healing by even a minute.
Every part of the process has had its own timeline. The healing, the physical therapy, learning balance again, getting and eventually adapting to a prosthetic. Each stage comes with its own challenges. And no matter how much I've wanted to push through faster, I've had to accept something humbling. I can't force the process. I can show up. I can participate. But ultimately I have to endure it, trust it, and walk it out one step at a time.
That reality has reshaped how I understand grace because we often expect our spiritual growth to happen faster than real healing ever does. We want instant freedom, instant maturity, instant transformation.
[00:01:06] Speaker B: But grace doesn't rush the work of God in us. It walks with us through it. In Philippians 1:6, we are told, he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until
[00:01:19] Speaker A: the day of Christ Jesus.
[00:01:22] Speaker B: God isn't starting something in you only
[00:01:24] Speaker A: to abandon it halfway.
[00:01:26] Speaker B: He is committed to the process even when it feels slow, even when it feels uncomfortable, even when progress isn't obvious. Let me point this little tidbit out, 2 Corinthians 3:18 and we all are being transformed into his image with ever increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. Notice being transformed, not instantly changed, but progressively, continually shaped. Just like physical healing, transformation happens over time. There were moments in my recovery where progress felt almost invisible, days where it didn't seem like anything was improving. But looking back, I can see that something was happening even when I couldn't measure it in the moment.
That's how grace works. James gives us the how of maturity in James 1:4. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. Grace doesn't just bring you to the starting line. It stays with you through the entire journey. It doesn't grow impatient with your pace. It doesn't pressure you to perform. It strengthens you to endure, to keep going, and to trust that God is forming something deeper than what you can see right now.
So if you feel like growth is taking longer than you expected, if you're in a season where change feels slow or incomplete, don't mistake that for failure. The process is not proof that something is wrong. It may be the clearest evidence that Grace is still at work. And just like I've had to learn through every step of this journey, you don't have to rush it, you just
[00:03:04] Speaker A: have to keep walking.
[00:03:06] Speaker B: Grace is patient with the process and it will finish what it started.
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