A FOOL is never PATIENT…!!

Let’s read Proverbs 14:29 & Galatians 5:22-23 & Proverbs 2:3-5 in tandem

“Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly”.

“…the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, PATIENCE, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control……”

“…indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for UNDERSTANDING, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God”

How would you identify a rich man? By his riches of course! How would you identify a poor man? By his poverty of course! If a man is begging on the street without proper clothes, what does that suggest? He has nothing because he has no money even for his basic necessities. On the contrary what says of a man dressed in very expensive designer clothes, driving a very expensive car? He is able to buy very expensive things because he has a lot of money. He is RICH!

Similarly, PATIENCE can be compared to one of the RICHES (a very expensive thing). And UNDERSTANDING can be compared to MONEY. You cannot display PATIENCE, if you do not have UNDERSTANDING. If you have very little or no PATIENCE it simply means that you do not have enough UNDERSTANDING (God given WISDOM). 

PATIENCE is an integral part of the fruit of the Spirit. If you realize that you display Quick-temper more easily that Patience, then you need to replace FOLLY with UNDERSTANDING. Understand the need for UNDERSTANDING in your life. 

Cry aloud with faith and ask for God’s WISDOM – He will surely reply with His supply!