Patience, NOT!

I am the most impulsive and inpatient person in the WORLD!

Really, I am, ask anyone who knows me......or just see me when I have to wait!

My daily prayer always contains "Lord, please give me the strength to exercise self control and patience."

He must really like to hear me ask that because it seems like it goes unanswered LOTS! HE HE

No, He is probably answering, I am just NOT LISTENING....too busy being impulsive I guess!

Websters says impatient means being annoyed because of delay.

James 5:8 says You too be patient.

If it were only that simple. But James 5:8 HAS become my daily chant!

What is so crazy is that it is not people I am most impatient with, it's the Lord!

There I said it!

He makes me wait and it drives me crazy!

It is hear where I struggle because I don't feel like I have ever really given the Lord a chance to "show up and show out" in my life because I am TOO impatient, yet I trust in the Lord.

So if I trust, why do I become so darn impatient?

He has never disappointed me!

I pray and if I don't get an answer relatively quick I start working it out on my own.

Maybe it is fear that drives my impatience. Fear that he will not answer the way I want him too. Or fear of WHAT that answer will be. Fear that I won't hear him and miss an opportunity.

What is it?

Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him. PS 62:5