The Sin of Impatience: A Refusal to Suffer

The greatest temptation of our time is impatience, in its full, original meaning: refusal to wait, undergo, suffer.” …

~Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

Lord God, the greatest temptation of our time
this is the greatest sin of my days.
This impatience, is it really a refusal to suffer?
Then Patience is the converse: the willingness to suffer.
Please, do that in me.
Don’t I long to know You?
I can wait….

I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death…

~ Philippians 3:10


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