We are in love with speed.  We want fast food, instant replay, immediate seating, rapid recoveries, instant coffee, fast cars, fast computers, and if one doesn’t leave the instant the light turns green, horns start honking.

Schools are designed currently with shorter semesters so people can quickly get to the major.

Many want quickie marriages and quickie engagements.  They will not wait for sex within the guidelines God has given for the most intimate of relationships.  Instead, many will have sex before marriage, and if they have an inconvenience of a child, the state will take care of that problem in a quick abortion.  In and out, fast abortion, so no one will have to know.  Except for God.

As one told me one time, he wanted to try the person out before the marriage.

Many treat their relationships as though they were a car.  “Try it before you buy it.”

And if the marriage, if there is a marriage, doesn’t go well.  There is a lawyer and a judge, for a fee, and will grant an instant divorce in one quick signing of a document.

And in another case.  A young lady, under age, left home to live with a young man, and after six months of this sinful behavior, with the permission of her parents, she’s now back home.  If history tells us anything, it won’t be long before it will happen again.

And on it goes.  We live in a society which has no patience.  We must have our desires met right now.  And when our lives wind up on the rocks, an immediate meeting with the preacher, elder or both to get an immediate “quick fix” for the troubles which are gotten into, when patience and waiting would have saved heartaches and the consequences of living a sinful and reckless life.

It is as Lewis Carroll once said:

“No, no!  The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”

  Better to wait than to try and explain to the elder/preacher why our lives landed on the rocks from sinful living.

Patience could prevent a lot of trouble, if we would learn to develop it.  I am talking to myself as much as anyone who reads this article.

Learn to wait for a faithful Christian man or woman to marry.  Going the same direction, heaven.  And when we are married, we need to have patience with our spouses and our children.  Ultimately, when we pray to God.  Let us learn patience for the answer and not do things on our own.  Pray and wait.  He will answer in His own time.

“Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof:  and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.”     (Ecclesiastes 7:8)

“But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”     (Isaiah 40:31)

“And patience experience; and experience hope:”     (Romans 5:4)

”Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;”   (Romans 12:12)
“Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

A waiting person is a patient person.  The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.”       ~ Unknown

 Patience is very hard to come by in a society which wants everything stamped with ASAP.  God is the ultimate in patience with us.  We too must develop this trait which is part of the fruit of the spirit.

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance:  against such there is no law.”     (Galatians 5:22-23)

“A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.”   ~ Savile

 Eileen Light