Are You One of the Long-Nosed People?
Most everyone would agree that patience is a highly desirable quality, especially since it is one of the fruits of the Spirit. It’s a great thing to have when waiting for your food in a restaurant, when dealing with coworkers, patients, customers, employees, your wife, your congregation, and there’s not a time when it’s not a good thing. As Christians, we get our worldview from the Bible, which means that, whether we like what it says or not, we are obligated to align our views with what is written down and preserved for us in the pages of Scripture. The Cambridge dictionary defines patience as the ability to wait, or to continue doing something despite difficulties, or to suffer without complaining or becoming annoyed. Source That seems like a pretty good definition, but what does our lens and instruction manual tell us patience is? Well, the definition of patience from the pages of scripture has a lot to do with anger and wrath, which are not the same thing. The un...