When God wants His child
to learn something He will teach it
no matter how His child
wants to avoid it.
This is the new lesson I
learned today. I’ll admit it, I’m not patient. I like to flit around. I hate to
wait in lines. I like to get in and get out.
But sometimes God has
another plan for me that makes me have to stop and learn. I had errands today;
several little few minutes at a time things to do.
Run to the post office
and mail some items. I avoid the local post office for my city and go to another
town to do all my postal matters. I know a small post office that makes posting
easy. The postal clerk is friendly and helpful and quick. I was in/out,
no problem.
Pick up some prescriptions
at my local pharmacy. In/out? OK, I went to the drive through first. There were
four cars in front so I thought it would be quicker to go in and pick them up. I
must admit that I did a lovely three-point turn and slid into a parking place. In/out?
There were only two
people in the line. One drop off. Easy. Got him out of the way. One lady
picking up one prescription. Easy? Noooooooo. She had a problem because her
medicine with insurance went up from $2.00 to $4.00. Really? The kind pharmacist
went through all her records and what insurance she had and tried to explain
why her medicine went up. Ten minutes later I was waiting for my turn. No in/out.
That’s when I realized
that God wanted me to practice a little patience today. I was supposed to not
get mad and silently fume. I was supposed to wait. God wanted me to learn this
little lesson. And no matter how I tried to avoid it, He wanted me to learn
this. This was just a little lesson in patience to maybe get me ready for a
bigger lesson in patience.
When I realized that no
matter how I tried to avoid my lesson in patience God was going make me learn
it, I just had to laugh. There standing in line I laughed (to myself.) And
thinking this was all funny made waiting OK.
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and
beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if
one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has
forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which
binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ
rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one
another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with
thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or
deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the
Father through Him. Colossians 3:12-17
I hope the next time I’m challenged to have
patience and bear with another; I will let the peace of God rule and give
thanks.
And laugh.
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