Patience is Required: Why You Must Take Things Easy
One of the greatest charges I've ever received during my trying times is to be patient.
Now, patience simply means taking it cool on yourself and not rushing any process because things are difficult.
It means facing your challenges head-on despite how difficult they are without losing your faith.
There are many challenges of life that can make us to want to lose our patience.
Some of them include:
Seeing the quick and early rise to stardom of your contemporaries.
You might feel that there is something wrong with you, not knowing that everyone has their time to rise and their time to success.
You might be walking by the roadside in Nigeria and someone younger enough to be your kid brother splatter the water from the puddles in the road on you.
You say what?
And they proceed with their journey without taking a second to say sorry.
In worst case, they can even yab you and curse you.
You might have been a laughing stock in your environment seeing young people into fraud cashing out and buying the latest wears and shoes.
And here is you, the highly moral and religious brother preaching against such lifestyle not having what to eat, drink or wear.
Many of your friends are finding it easy in the college; they are smashing the A-grades but here is you, struggling to at least get a C.
The fault is not you.
You have to hustle for what to eat and drink before retiring to class.
The exhausted and tired you will find it difficult to relate with the class environment.
The class then later feels like a relaxation centre.
You miss tests and exams.
A lot of academic hurdles and struggles.
You can't pay your tuition on time.
While the lecturer is teaching you noun, your mind is in the verb state, always acting and hyperacting.
You scramble to get handouts and lecture materials.
Life's just uneasy.
Life's painful.
And things are very bitter.
Please be patient.
Don't rush yourself, you may later find out that your destination is not nearby.
See, when desires and overambition cloud our heart, we find it difficult to see what lies ahead.
We are pressurized to live by what we see in the present.
We are under stress to enjoy the moment of ease and pleasure.
What then is the outcome in most cases?
Sorrow and unfulfilment.
When you rush, you can crush.
Rushing is always smooth and enjoyable but on the long run, just like an attachment to the truck, we break off from our original drive to succeed.
You know what happens when the train derails, that's what happens to us in life when we fail to take control of our situation and endure the grip.
Patience is an habit that we all must imbibe if we truly want good success.
The maize doesn't take time to germinate and ready for harvest.
I guess under three or four months, under normal circumstance, it should have blossomed and be ready to be on its way to the market.
How about the cocoa tree?
You are still expecting it to fruit in three years time.
Even though it might seems that your expectation are becoming unrealistic, when it eventually blossoms, it could accrue funds that repeated planting of maize cannot achieve.
Be patient and follow the due process in life.
When you follow the due process, you can't but grow.
When you do otherwise, you can't but suffer the repercussion.
I know the times are hard.
I know that every day, it seems as if the tempo of your embitterment is increasing.
As if life is nearly coming to an end.
It's very painful.
But please endure the pain, the gain will come later.
There is a story of a guy in the bible that I so much like.
He’s an embodiment of patience.
This man had no child and he is about to clock 100 years.
His wife is also of age, maybe 80 something.
And they had no child.
It was at this point in time that God instructed the man to leave his comfort zone—the land of his birth: his hometown—to a distant place.
God promised to show him where he’ll go.
Without reluctance, the man left his hometown.
Even though that sounds crazy, he took that leap of faith and head for the journey to the unknown, though certain place.
After a lot of encounters with the Lord, he finally got to his destination.
Still yet, not having children.
At this point in time, the man had already became rich and influential. He had soldiers. He once helped his nephew out in a battle, he won and plundered.
The clause still remained in his life:
He had no son.
On certain occasion, he prayed to the Lord for a child.
All the Lord told him was to check his uprightness before Him. What does this has to do with what is on the ground?
He even had one visitor one day, they are angels in human form.
The man out of humility and his wife being hospitable, fed these angels in human form.
The creature promised his wife that by the same date thrle following year, she would have given birth to her own child.
She shrugged off that statement.
How possible?
When I’m over 90?
What about menopause?
How will this be possible?
Old-age birth?
It has never occurred and might never occurred.
Alas, later had Isaac, who later gave birth to the present country of Israel.
That is the power of patience.
When you are patient coupled with diligence, you get the best.
You can never be the last by being patient.
I know you are aging every day.
I know chances are getting slimmer everyday for you.
But here is the thing:
You can’t be patient and not have the best.
I hope this piece has encouraged you in your journey in life.
Let me know what you feel about it in the comment section.
See you in the next article.
Thank you for reading,
Oluwaseyi.
