Patience ------WHAT IT IS NOT!

The act of being impatient towards somebody or something has caused many of us a great deal of loss. These losses can be financial, health, academic, valuable resources, quality people etc. the list keeps going one. On the reverse side of being impatient is patient.

Patience is also an act has helped many achieved great success in life. I believe the question we should always ask ourselves should be what is patience? Or what is patience not? Let start be looking at what patient is not.

What Patience is not…
According to Stuart Bricoe…speaker/author of several books “discipleship e.t.c, he said…

“Patience is not indifference. It is not the attitude that there is nothing, worth believing and no stand worth taking.” He also said, “Neither is it fatalistic passivity that has given up because nothing will change so there is no point doing anything.” With these insight into what patient is not.The next question one will ask is; what then is patience?

What Patience is,

Briscoe says that “Patience believes that there are things worth doing, lessons to be learnt, people to be helped, qualities to be developed, character to be formed and situations to be mastered. And that patience is willing to accept that all these desirable things take time.” The same way we invest time and resources to learn other skills and abilities to improve our lives. We shoud also invest a good part of our time and resources in learning to be patient with people and unfavorable circumstances. I believe we should specially invest time and resources at learning how to be patient with others.

The act of being patient takes time to master in all areas of our live. Sometimes, when we reflect upon our lives and how we have grown into becoming the kind of person we are right now, either successful or working towards success we will often learn to be patient with those we come across.

In the Bible, the Apostle Paul learned patience by recognizing the Lord’s patience towards him. He wrote “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners - and I was the worst of them all. But that is why God had mercy on me, so that Christ Jesus could use me as a prime example of his great patience with even the worst sinners.” (1Timothy 1:15-16). I believe that the great men and women this world ever produced were able to attain such greatness partly because of their act of being patient, especially towards the people they came across on their way up the success ladder.

We all desire to be successful people in life. A person of influence and authority. It could be possible that some of us have not achieved our desired success, because we have not been patient enough, to do the things that are worth doing;or may be we've not learnt the lessons we need to learn from our different experiences in life;or may be we've not been patient enough to help the people we need to help to attain success in life,because like its often said,"there is no success wthout a successor"; or maybe we've not been patient enough to develop the qualities we need to succeed;or maybe we've not been patient enough to form the characters we need for success;or maybe we've not been patient enough to master the situations we most often find ourselves in life,so we can better handle such situation each time they occur.

In whatever sphere of all life we may be in now or whatever the situation we find ourselves, its important we undertand that,patience is a very vital part of our success recipe.No matter what are goals in life may be.

If we can learn to be patient with ourselves, we will ultimately learn to be patient with people and patientlly do and leasrn things that will mprove our lives; so we can achieve the best thngs life has to offer. After aIl,God created us for the successful life.Because He(i.eGod),is a success.So we are the same.Its written in the bible,that as He is,so are we n this world. It all starts from within each and every one of us. A little patience does not hurt.