Patience

If you could go back in history, and compare any given era to our own, you would be stunned at the changes. There are lots of new inventions, innovations, and services.

Our era is known as the fastest growing in technology. Look at some of the inventions: the airplane, car, television, cell phone, microwave oven, computer, digital cameras, cable tv, internet, and satellites. All of these have something in common… they make our lives easier. This is good in a way, but all of these technological advances have made us into an impatient society. Yes! I said impatient. We have gotten used to the idea of getting everything fast. Here are some examples: Instant coffee, microwavable dinners, e-mails, non-stop flights. I could go on and on with this.

We want everything quick. I, for one, don’t like traffic. I can’t stand bumper to bumper traffic (I wish someone would invent instant travel). How many times have you been in traffic screaming at the person in-front of you, because he’s not going fast enough? Then you finally pass that person, just to get behind someone else, and the whole thing starts again. Or, how about this… being in line at a fast-food restaurant, and the person in-front of you has been there for five minutes. You would think this person has made up his/her mind about the choice of food. But, to your surprise he/she was too busy scrolling through some videos on social media, he/she forgot to make a decision on the menu. So, now you become impatient, and sometimes we lose our cool and start to complain. The problem with this is that we start to get angrier, not knowing the consequences that this could bring. you can see it all over the news and social media. When someone becomes impatient, anger settles in. When anger takes over, there’s no telling of what may happen.

So, here’s something so simple to do, and it does work. This technique has work for many years. Count to ten, when you get to ten, thank God for not losing your patient. By the time you do this, chances are that the person in-front of you might be done ordering, and now it’s your turn.

I know this sound simple, but it works. Try it and share it with family and friends. We can all benefit from this simple technique in life.

“God’s Spirit makes us loving, happy, peaceful, Patient, kind, good, faithful, gentle, and self-controlled. There is no law against behaving in any of these ways”.

Galatians 5:22-23