patience

I'm sure everyone has prayed a prayer for patience before and asked for it to work immediately

but why is it that patience evaporates when we are late for a critical engagement and are caught in a traffic jam? Or we rush to the “12 items or less” line at the store, only to find someone in front of us with 16 items!

Being forced to wait ratchets up the stress and shortens our fuse. When that happens, we not only fail to be patient but we also undercut the God’s work in our lives.

Patience is not just a virtue but the fruit of the Spirit which means that signs of impatience only reveals the sour fruit of our fallen hearts rather than the sweetness of God in our lives.

Since God is a patient , when we abandon patience we miss the opportunity to show our world the glory of God through our lives.

Bursts of impatience only demonstrate that we are more concerned with our own agendas than the needs and struggles of others.

So let’s all take a deep breath and turn our focus away from ourselves by patiently loving others instead of ourselves in the midst of stress.

its time to get cracking