Patient in Affliction

“Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer” – Romans 12:12

Today’s world believes against patience. Each and every thing, people wants instantly. For standing in a queue at a grocery shop, people get so frustrated that they think they may lose some seconds. They try to walk over other person and get into trouble. This happens in every walk of life. Even the character of people does not support patience. They get angry and in that anger do lots of things which should never be done. If you go and enquire about how the prisoners ended up there, you will find out, if they had little patience, they wouldn’t have been there.

“Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools” – Ecclesiastes 7: 9

There are times when people lose patience. When their child irritates, same in the case of his boss, when his spouse irritates him, and more and more, even the traffic block which can be seen daily.

If you are in need for patience, then the only place to ask for it is to God. God is patient with us, even for the people who haven’t trust in Christ and failed to repent. God is patiently waiting for unbelievers to repent and accept Christ. God shows patience even when his children are tortured by unbelievers and are waiting for the same unbelievers to repent and accept Christ.

If God can show these degrees if patience, we who are his creation should also show the same. But the choice is always yours.

“And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful” – 2 Timothy 2:24.