From The Pastor’s Pen – By Brian Horrobin
It has been said that patience is not how long you wait.
It is how well you behave while you’re waiting.
Anyone can hang in there and fuss and fume and make comments to those around you while you complain about how long things are taking.
Go to any bank with one teller on duty or a retail store with two lanes open, and the express lane has people with full carts.
You are sure to get an earful!
The true, Biblical meaning of patience is “to suffer long.”
In other words, you focus on what you are waiting for, and not on how long it is taking to get it.
God promised Abraham that he would be the father of many nations, a promise that came when he was old and childless.
He was given a son in his old age.
The promise came when this man was 75 years old, which was pretty amazing in and of itself.
However, as it turned out, his son Isaac was not born until he was 100!
Hebrews 6:15 says, “And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.”
Farmers live by this principle in order to harvest their crops at just the right time.
James 5:7 says, “See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains.”
When you buy fruits and vegetables at the grocery store, aren’t you glad the farmer waited until the produce was ripe before he delivered it to the store?
Nobody wants sour, unripe fruit.
The best things in life are worth the wait, so decide now that you won’t take a short cut, nor be cranky while you wait.
It will all be worth it in the end!
