I couldn\u2019t take my actions back.<\/p>\n
A woman had parked her car and blocked my way of getting to the gas pump. She hopped out to drop off some recycling items, and I didn\u2019t feel like waiting, so I honked my horn at her. Irritated, I put my car in reverse and drove around another way. I immediately felt bad about being impatient and unwilling to wait 30 seconds (at the most) for her to move.<\/p>\n
I apologized to God. Yes, she should have parked in the designated area, but I could have spread kindness and patience instead of harshness. Unfortunately it was too late to apologize to her\u2014she was gone. Many of the Proverbs challenge us to think about how to respond when people get in the way of our plans. There\u2019s the one that says, \u201cFools show their annoyance at once\u201d (Prov. 12:16). And \u201cIt is to one\u2019s honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel\u201d (20:3).<\/p>\n
Then there\u2019s this one that goes straight to the heart: \u201cFools give full vent to their rage, but the wise bring calm in the end\u201d (29:11). As we cooperate with God and depend on Him, He produces the fruit of the Spirit in us. Growing in patience and kindness seems pretty diffi cult sometimes. But the apostle Paul says it is the work of God, the \u201cfruit of the Spirit\u201d (Gal. 5:22-23).<\/p>\n
As we cooperate with Him and depend on Him, He produces that fruit in us. Please change us, Lord. Make me a gentle person, Lord. One who doesn\u2019t quickly Give me a spirit of self-control and patience. God tests our patience to enlarge our hearts.<\/p>\n
Source: odb.org<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I couldn\u2019t take my actions back. A woman had parked her car and blocked my way of getting to the gas pump. She hopped out to drop off some recycling items, and I didn\u2019t feel like waiting, so I honked my horn at her. Irritated, I put my car in reverse and drove around another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[274],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.najicherfanfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.najicherfanfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.najicherfanfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.najicherfanfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.najicherfanfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.najicherfanfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20188,"href":"https:\/\/www.najicherfanfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions\/20188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.najicherfanfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.najicherfanfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.najicherfanfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.najicherfanfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}