HAVING PATIENCE IN RELATIONSHIPS: 1 Thessalonians 5:14 “Now we exhort you, brethren, to warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, and be patient towards all men.”
Having and building a good relationship with others takes time. It won’t just pop up out of the blues. Ecclesiastes 7:8 says, “Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.”
You are looking for a true partner and friend, and you don’t have the patience to build the relationship or to wait to seek your soul mate. How then would you last long in that relationship regardless of these words I’m writing as an awareness?
If you look inwardly, you will find yourself inpatient, which is not tolerance even in a relationship. The main scriptural verse B part says, “…and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.”
This is very insightful; it’s on a deeper level of understanding; it is spiritual. If you are spiritual enough to have patience, your end will be better, and your lasting results will be good ones. God is pointing out the essence of having patience with others in whatever kind of relationship we may be in with them.
The word “better” means “preferable than the previous, in other words.” This means that your relationships grows with patience and not with indifference or seeking for what hasn’t been lost in the first place. Your patience begets a better spirit in you through the word of God in obedience. This is one of the major drivers of long-lasting and loving relationships—this thing called patience.
A story of a couple who broke up due to rumors of the husband having extra marital affairs. Later it was discovered that it was just only a rumor with no truth. Ephesians 4:14-15 says, “That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:” You see, in such a case, when we make hasty decisions based on what we hear or know of others or about our spouses without doing the proper finding and relate it to what God requires to be done in such a case, we might just break a home that’s designed to last for a lifetime. Patience would have resolved the issues, had it been that they entrusted the matter into the hands of the Lord.
Proverbs 23:23 “Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.” They could have prayed for God to reveal the truth and he would have brought every hidden thing to light.
JOHN EBHOTEME O.
