Question

patience is bitter but the fruit is sweet a short story

Answer 1

We should have patience with all things, but chiefly we should have patience with ourselves. We as a people lack patience. We look to God for immediate answers, quick responses and fast results to our trials and tribulations in our lives and some of us can't even fall on our knees to pray. Know that everything works in God's favour....God's time...and for His purpose. We block so many blessings with our selfish desires, sinful pleasures and our impatient needs to fulfil our empty souls, but yet we are still incomplete.

Patience is a by product of tribulations; it isn't granted, it is learned.....and that is a lesson that we risk to learn the hard way. God's patience is infinite! He is a faithful gardener ready to cut off the things in our lives that don't bear fruit. He knows what we lack, what we need and with whom we should keep in our lives. God is perfect in His wisdom, His ways and His timing. We need to reflect back on the moments of our lives where God's patience, grace and mercy had to intervene in the midst of a storm because we were disobedient.

The lack of patience shows where are main priorities lie....in ourselves

The lack of patience allows us not to think before we speak and regret words that we can't take back.

The lack of patience allows us to lose out on Golden opportunities that God had in store for us.

The lack of patience shows what we truly value...the need not to be dependent on God.

The lack of patience in love allows us to spend countless time with the one that God has not chosen for us.