ANGER VS. PATIENCE

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Let’s look at anger’s opposite:
Patience, tolerance, understanding, self restraint - that ability to live easily and well with any type of delay, discouragement or disappointment.

If you want to prove your maturity look for these traits.

We expect it in an adult. We certainly don’t expect in a baby.

An infant doesn’t mind waking mommy or daddy up in the middle of the night if it is hungry, or thirsty, or wet. His or her needs come first.

But a grown-up human being who still displays the instincts of a child, has not yet earned the right to be called mature.
These immature adults major in being rude and restless. They honk horns in traffic, steal parking spaces, and berate sales clerks. Even fast food restaurants are not fast enough for them.

They help to swell the attendance of a church in Florida that advertises a 22 minutes worship service.
Let me share an old Hebrew story.

Abraham was sitting outside his tent one evening when he saw an old man weary from much travel passing by.

He moved forward to stop him in his journey and invited him into his tent.
There he washed his feet and gave him food and drink.

The old man eagerly began eating, but without saying either a prayer or blessing.

So Abraham asked him, “Don’t you worship God?”

The old man responded, “I worship fire only and reverence no other god.”

Hearing this, Abraham became quite angry, grabbed the old man by his cloak and threw him out of the tent into the night’s cold darkness.

After the old man had departed, God called out to Abraham and asked where the stranger was. Abraham replied, “I sent him on his way because he did not worship you.”

God answered “I have suffered him all his eighty years although he dishonors me. Could you not endure for just one night?”

God suffers us, endures us! And forgives us and loves us and sets such a perfect example for us.

And patiently asks that we patiently “love our neighbors as ourselves” and “love our enemies.”

But we cannot do this when we are angry because prejudice loves anger; hate loves anger; anger loves anger.

Still… we must find, and keep, and practice patience because patience is the companion of wisdom.

We must practice patience because as the book of Proverbs puts it, “All good things come to he who waits.”

BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES…quoted from Sunday Jan 2 2011
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series) (on this Wyrck’s Writing blog)

It began Sunday Dec 26, 2010

“I have always been intrigued by a question God put to Adam, “Where are you?” Why did He ask that? What is the meaning behind this? It wasn’t a geographical question, for certainly God knew the answer to that one.

It was a spiritual question to which God also had the answer. Then why ask it? For Adam’s sake, and all the Adams and Eves yet to come. For you and me in these 21st century days.

“Where are we? And where do we want to go? What do we want to be? And how much, or how little?” And we must never stop trying to answer God’s question as we try to get off a treadmill and aim toward a proper direction.

It’s called purpose, and…”

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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES on this Wyrick’s Writings site entitled ANGER IS A KILLER. It began Thursday January 6, 2010.

“Do you enjoy visiting friends? More than likely you’re thinking, Preacher, of course, I do.
Now let me ask the other side of the coin - Do you enjoy visiting enemies? No?

Well, I know you must enjoy visiting at least one enemy because, like myself, you probably visit this one quite often. Unfortunately, we all …visit this enemy…whose name is anger.

Some visit anger seldom . Some on a regular basis. And during those visits, some spew and others stew.”

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