What Becomes of the Impatient Person?

Being impatient is one of the devil's low blows. He hits you with it and before you know it you've lived half of your life with this horrible thing ruining your progress and your success. Being impatient can hit you on every level: relationship, career, financial, and etc.

So what exactly becomes of the impatient person?

Well they can most definitely miss out on all the blessings and good things that are in store for them.

"The Man" One of the major impatient factors women deal with. Not only is it your impatience that can get in the way on this one but I'm sure your parent's and your friend's impatience doesn't help much either. You've told yourself that you're going to focus on God and when the right person comes along and you have a GREAT feeling about him then you'll give it a try. Okay now that six months have gone by and you haven't met one guy who even passes your "Don't use drugs not even socially test" or your "I'm celibate until marriage test" you decide to go back to dating whomever cause you cant wait anymore. And you say to hell with your test because even with simple test as the ones I named you could miss out on your husband. Or you just go on random blind dates to please your mother or prove to your father that your not gay since you're over thirty and still single. (Cracking up laughing at my self) My point here is, if God told you to wait then who cares how long it is and who cares what other people have to say. I know I know easier said than done. Reevaluate what you're waiting for anyway. Sometimes its not even just about the art of learning how to be patient, it might be about what you're going to learn and how you're going to grow in the time frame of this patience.

"Finances" Another big one. Partly the reason behind half of America loosing their houses. Getting into homes they couldn't afford because they were too impatient to wait for when the time was right to buy a house or maybe it was about buying a house at a certain price. You wanted the $300,000 one instead of the $200,000 one so they worked some figures and pulled some strings and got you into that balloon mortgage that you couldn't afford and couldn't refinance. Well if you would have gotten the house you could afford or waited it out a little while longer until you were able to save up enough emergency money then perhaps you would have been able to pay the mortgage for those tough six months you went through.
Lets not even get into shopping and running up that credit card from Nordstrom, Macy's, and Saks... Just cant wait till you can pay for it after payday hughh???? :--)

"The Career" is a good one too. You hate your job so you jump right into another one or you flat out quit cause you know you'll find another one. Your new job decides to downsize and since you're the last one hired...you know the rest. Well I'm completely guilty of this one, yes I'm the quitter LOL. Perhaps you should have made plans and set goals, worked hard towards them and when you reached them then quit or took a leave for two or three weeks (if feasible) to test it out before you up and quit.

I could go on and on about the decisions we make from being impatient; especially since I recently learned that was my main problem, but we all know better. We feel it in our gut when were making a wrong choice. We even back it up with that whole "Oh well" I'm taking a chance.

So where do you go from here since you've made all those mistakes up above and then some more?

Its really a simple thing, meditate with God and make plans for the things you want in life. Write down the responsible and sensible steps it would take to get there, and do what you can and pray to God for what you cant. Most importantly remember we can make plans but God has the final say so...

Love,

Demetrius