Patience

(A TEACHING I GAVE TO ONE OF MY STUDENTS TO READ AT THE CHURCH SHE BELONGED TO – 2001)

Patience is the only tool one needs. It is a fruit of the spirit, (Galatians 5:22). Everything that is wrong with this world is here because of lack of patience. Patience being a fruit of the Spirit, feeds the Spiritual, Godly momentums. The opposite of patience is frustration. Frustration is the fruit of the ego and of the flesh. Frustration leads to irrationality, anger, fear and its many facets. Patience leads one to fortitude, forbearance, Love and Love’s many facets.

“I want my new toy and I want my new toy now, because life will be better when my new toy arrives.” This is an egoic lie straight from the pits of hell!  What would each and every one of you do if all the fast food restaurants shut down?

If the DIVINE ONE opened a “Slow Food Restaurant”, which one of us would sit there long enough to partake of God’s food?

If patience is a virtue then lack of patience is a shame. People get aggravated in grocery lines. People get aggravated in gas lines. We don’t like to pull up to a place and wait five minutes.

Each one of us needs to carry a pocket New Testament and each time we have to wait in line we must pop it open and read it! Every time we are in line!

Without patience one cannot find the stillness or silence, which is necessary to hear, see and feel the DIVINE ONE. Without patience, the mountain climber makes mistakes, which can ultimately lead to failure when approaching the mountain of Spirituality and Growth. A mountain climber’s best tool is patience, for without it, frustration, then despair set in, he missteps, falls, and the climb is anything but easy. It is full of difficulty, torture, pain and worldly suffering.

With patience, you move slowly enough through life so that the DIVINE ONE is working through you and with you for your individual growth and pathway to HEAVEN. The minute you let frustration set in, you create a wall of fear based energies that continuously placate your self with the fruits of the flesh and feed your self with frustrative fear, thus increasing the ego and fear-based walls around you. All the while the DIVINE ONE waits patiently for you to tear this wall down.

 Can God work with somebody who is full of frustration, which is feeding the fruits of the flesh? No! God will however, allow that person to learn the hard way. Only after God tears that person down and builds them anew, is God able to work with that person. If that’s the path you choose, and you choose to make God tear you down (which is the hard way) it will be more painful than the easier path of allowing God and asking God to build you anew. For willingness to work with God is ease and patience, and unwillingness to work with God is fear and frustration. The choice is yours because choice is truly the only thing we own.

We patiently grow to the point when we have enough dominionship to invoke our God given choice of Love and it’s many facets…or fear and it’s many facets. Without patience Moses never would have received the Ten Commandments. Without patience, the people below fell into a spirit of rebellion and got busted by God’s messenger. Thus they were made to wander for a generation until all were wiped out who witnessed the blasphemous outcome of non-patience (except for Moses and his core group: Joshua, Aaron, their wives and a few others.)

Without patience we succumb to the world and worldliness. With patience we succumb to God and Godliness. How do we increase our patience? By putting forth a strong concerted effort to see the light at the end of this worldly existence. Invoking within us, which is our birthright and choice, obedience to God’s laws. Lack of patience is lack of obedience to God. Lack of Love is lack of obedience to God. Lack of anyone of the fruits of the spirit is lack of obedience to God, for God is made up of all these things and we are made in His Image. Therefore, all these things are available to us by a concerted effort to do right, to do good, to do God and to make right choices. The next time you are placed in frustrating situation, choose to invoke the Divine Pick-Axe of patience and chip away at the ice of fear that turns the heart cold.

Without patience you cannot put the thread through the eye of a needle, and all people could get angry attempting to put the thread through the needle. Remember what Isa / Jesus said “It is easier to get a camel through the eye of a needle than to get a rich man into the Kingdom of Heaven.” The rich man fears, he clings onto the world. The rich man is frustrated when things don’t go his way. The rich man is frustrated when one of his many cars brakes down. The rich man is frustrated when the stock market roller coasters. The rich man is frustrated when whatever he wants is not available to him right now. Not all but a majority of the rich are possessed by their possessions, thus forgetting that the DIVINE is the owner of all things and gives us stewardship of what HE owns.