One of the attributes of God that we all know is His patience, yet,
it is top of the list of His likeness that many of us are lacking. Have
you ever wondered how God is able to lovingly accommodate us, with all
our inconsistencies and failings? The answer is found in His patience. A
patient person is able to accommodate the failings of others and still
be himself, not allowing the failings of others determine how he
responds to them. This is what is required of everyone in any kind of
relationship that is expected to succeed. Unlike God, we, like all the
people that we are relating with, are imperfect and inconsistent.
Knowing that we, like those in relationship with us, are imperfect
should inspire us to seek God to help us walk patiently towards others
that we are relating with, even as we ourselves will like others to act
patiently towards us in our failings.
A patient
person will relate with others who may be behaving imperfectly, while
waiting for them to overcome their present flaws. He understands that
relating successfully with imperfect persons require patience. If you
desire to have a successful relationship, then you must develop the
trait of patience. When someone tells you to be patient with someone
else, what you are being told is to accommodate his shortcomings.
Toni
