A Watched Pot Never Boils | Patience Series

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A Watched pot Never boils | Patience by Rev. Shine. P Thomas

Have you ever waited? Were you Patient?

Biblical Principle of Developing an Attitude of Patience

Have you ever waited in a long queue? We like to get our things done very fast; we never like to be delayed isn’t it? Have you ever had the experience of boiling a vessel of milk? If you wait for it to boil, it seems to take forever. However the moment you turn to something else so that you can catch up with time, the milk spills over.

This morning we are going to see the biblical principle of developing an attitude of patience.

We are living in an impatient world. By the day the world is progressing where inventions are made to make things faster. Many of us now use the microwave to heat food some of us find that the one minute heating time seems to be a very long waiting time, then we go for a haircut and we want to be the first one to occupy that chair and get out of it as soon as possible.

Listen, God works on a totally different realm. God has a specific time for every event in our life and no one can change the timing of God. Many times we try to work out a lot of things faster. We get so worked up and do thing ourselves, eventually ending up discouraged, disturbed, and worried just because we do not want to wait for God’s time. See what the Bible says:

Ecclesiastes 3:1

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. We need to understand that God is in control over our lives and he has a time for everything concerning us. We just got to wait patiently for God’s timing. If we do not develop the art of patience, we may probably get worked up in our life.

Joke

A woman wanted to reach her husband on his mobile phone but discovered that she was out of currency. She instructed her son to pass across an urgent message to daddy who is at work. After the son had called, he got back to mummy to inform her that it was a lady that picked up daddy’s phone the three times he tried reaching dad on the mobile. A lady answering dad’s phone, exclaimed the mother!

She waited impatiently for her husband to return home. The moment she sighted him, she gave him a very hard slap, while the man was trying to ask why? She repeated the slap, people from neighborhood who saw this rushed around to know the cause of this. The man asked his son to tell everybody what the lady said to him when he called, son said: “Daddy that lady said the number u are trying to call is busy at the moment, call again later.” Impatience causes us to be worked up in life.

Luke 21:19

By your steadfastness and patient endurance you shall win the true life of your souls. This verse is talking about how we can win or control our soul. Our soul is our mind, will and emotions. How can we control them?

Luke 21:19

KJV In your patience possess ye your souls.

Possess means own or gain control of. A patient man can have control over his soul. Our soul is what we think, what we feel, what we want. When we are in a situation, our mind will start throwing different things onto us. Then we lose our cool, lose our patience and start behaving like our mind says. But if we are patient we can control our mind; but developing patience is not all that easy as it sounds.

How to Develop Patience?

1. Wisdom produces patience

Proverbs 19:11

A man’s wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offense. The more we learn about God, the more we mature in Christ, the more we develop patience.

You see, God leads us through different situations in life and develops patience in us because by nature we are not born patent.

Illustration

When Sam & Grace were small babies they used to drink milk and wet their diapers at night. Once the diaper is wet they feel very hungry. Both of them never lied in the bed and thought “I know my Mom & Dad are tired. I will just wait until a more convenient time to let them know I am hungry or that my diaper is wet.” No they used to cry and scream impatiently and continue to cry until their demands are met. Children are not very patient, isn’t it?