What's the Rush?
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(Baker’s Encyclopedia of the Bible)
Patience. Ability to take a great deal of punishment from evil people or circumstances without losing one’s temper, without becoming irritated and angry, or without taking vengeance. It includes the capacity to bear pain or trials without complaint, the ability to forbear under severe provocation, and the self-control which keeps one from acting rashly even though suffering opposition or adversity.
The usual Hebrew expression for patience is related to the verb “to be long” and involves the idea of being long to get riled or slow to become angry. Two different Greek words are translated by kjv translators with the word “patience.” One of the words has the idea of “remaining firm under” tests and trials and is better translated “endurance” or “steadfastness.” The other Greek word is related to the above Hebrew meaning and refers to patience as “long-spiritedness” or “calmness of spirit” even though under severe provocation to lose one’s temper.
Modern technology has created an impulsive culture, there is little we must wait on, almost everything we need is on our phone, laptop or tablet. We can order food, order packages, and even order love right from the comfort of our couch and it has built a mindset of impatience in our culture to where people will leave your life simply because you made them wait for something. Wait for marraige, wait for ministry, wait for promotion, the list goes on but one thing about God is that he never moves in quickness but he moves in calculated steps. Even in Amos 9:13 when he says it’ll make your head spin, the blessings will come fast but the harvest takes time to grow, you dont sow today and reap tomorrow.
Be careful of a false perception of the word quick.
Examples of inpatience:
Abraham & Sarah
Samuel making the sacrifice
Samuel seeking out the medium
Peter cutting off the soldier’s ear
How do you wait patiently?
Get your instructions - Luke 14:28-30 28. For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it—29. lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30. saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’
Habakkuk 2: 2
God gives instructions to Abraham on his journey.
God instructs Moses on building the tabernacle.
God instructs Samuel on how to make sacrifices.
God instructs us on how to live our lives
God instructs us how to manage our finances
God instructs husbands on how to provide for their families
But the question is not did you hear the question how will you respond.
2. Execute your instructions - James 1:21-22 NKJV 21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. 22. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Habakkuk 2:3 - For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.
3. Wait - Habakkuk 2:3
“For the vision is yet for the appointed time;
It hastens toward the goal and it will not fail.
Though it tarries, wait for it;
For it will certainly come, it will not delay.
3 Benefits of waiting
- You learn temperance (self-control)
And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Your faith is elevated - Isaiah 40:31
Yet those who wait for the Lord
Will gain new strength;
They will mount up with wings like eagles,
They will run and not get tired,
They will walk and not become weary.
Your faith elevates you above your situation like an eagle to get a God-view of he’s doing.
You will see the manifestation with joy - Psalm 27:13
13. I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord In the land of the living. 14 Wait for the Lord; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the Lord.