Patient With People

Pause & Reflect

Paul tells believers to walk with humility, gentleness and patience, bearing with one another in love. People require patience because people are unfinished. So are you. Relationships bring us into contact with differences in personality, maturity, communication, habits and expectations. Patience does not mean tolerating abuse or refusing healthy boundaries. It means giving people appropriate room to grow without demanding instant perfection. How easily do you become irritated when someone does not move at your preferred speed? How quickly do you label a person based on one weakness? Remember how patiently God has dealt with you. Grace received should become grace extended.