Patience and Pandemic Don't Mix Easily

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welcome to apply. Cast. I'm gonna be here five times a week to give you some hope, in some encouragement to start your day so Monday to Friday every week. Join us here for starting right with Danny Mac. And just to let you know there's a new podcast coming out starting next week. Tuesday, the 28th of April. It's a 30 minute podcast called Life and Hope With Danny Mac on My very first guest is none other than Joel Defreeze, who many of you know, So join us here and listen to our podcast of life and hope. Starting next Tuesday, the 28th and you'll miss any episodes are starting, right Danny Man spoken to a number of people lately who have been struggling with patients in the midst of our current conditions. I thought I was doing pretty good. I thought I was being very patient and handling it very well until I went to the grocery store, as we do once a week, my wife and I have gone to the grocery store, and we got there and they were lined up outside, keeping six feet apart, and they were only letting so many people into the sore. No problem. We got in line up. We sat in that line for about 20 minutes to be able to get into the store. The fellow at the front of the line who was directing the people in was, Ah, very kind and very good gentleman. But he has informed us that only one person per family could go into the store. So I walked home, and as I was walking home, I saw other family members suddenly split apart and go get separate shopping carts so they could go in as individuals and in my patients soon wore out, I began to get frustrated with this whole process, and on my walk home, I talked to God a lot about what's going on and how he could fix it on. I was amazed that God didn't take any of my advice. He just didn't do it. But he did Let me dump it all out. Wasn't long afterwards that I came across in my own personal devotional time effusions. Chapter four, Verse two. It says he completely humble and gentle, be patient, burying one another in love, and that sort of hit me here We are going through the things that we are going through, and we're finding ourselves impatient, mostly because we've gotten to the point in our society where we expect things to happen at microwave speed. And God often works with a slow cooker, the real difference between a microwave and a slow cooker. It's a whole lot better. At the end, I was reminded of the people in Scripture who had to wait a long time to see their promises come to pass to see the answers to the things that they were hoping for. Abraham and Sarah waited 25 years for the promise of Isaac. Israel wandered the desert for 40 years before they could enter the promised land and even the New Testament, where Paul was converted on that Damascus road from there until the time he started recording his ministry, there was a period of 14 years. Most things all took time. Now don't get upset. No worry here, gang. I don't think that God's gonna wait 40 years and put us through this pandemic for the next 40 years. I don't believe that at all. What I do believe is that in the middle of where we are right now. There is a call for us to show the patients that God has for us. He wants us to show patients came stepped in one vs 19 and 20. My dear brothers and sisters take note of this. Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God deserves. The truth of a patient's is that it's something that we choose to do. It's not something that will come automatically. It's not bang. All of a sudden we are patient people. It starts first with our choice to believe that God's word is true when it says that we need this in our lives and it's available to us and then we start to choose to be patient in situations where we would normally not be patient. When we do that enough, when we do that enough, when we make the choice is to be patient. That is when it starts to become natural to us afterwards, and God will our those choices in our lives to follow his word and we will actually become more patient people than what we were before. God wants us in our lives to show grace and peace and patients to be examples of that to those were around us. So I encourage you today. Learn from my mistakes. Even if you think you've got it down. Pat, a law got to continue to teach. You have agreed to everyone. God bless you. We'll talk. Teoh, Thank you for joining us today. And be sure to check out a brand new podcast starting next week. Life and Hope with Danny Mac. And keep tuning in Monday to Friday for starting right. Danny Mac will be on both of them. Take care and have a wonderful day God bless.