We live in a frantic rushing world that often leads us to fatigue, frustration, stress, and burn out. In the past few decades, we have getting into a culture of rushing that people want everything and everything right now. Technology is one of the aspects that has contributed to this new life style; it has brought countless relevant benefits to humanity, it has made us multi-tasking people and more efficient bringing the entire world through the screen and the click of a button, however, it has also intensified a natural tendency of humans to be impatient. According to several examples described in the bible, is notorious that people have had a hard time to apply the patience in their lives and this problem has currently increased even more; consequently, the negative effects caused by the absence of the virtue of patience, has affected directly the spiritual lives of the individuals, it has also caused problems on relations between family members extending to the professional side which also has been affected negatively. For this reason, it is so important to take a time to breathe of this unwise world to ponder and reflect the importance to apply and seek for this virtue which can be used as an efficient antidote to have a better quality of life .
“Patience is a godly attribute that can heal souls, unlock treasures of knowledge and understanding, and transform ordinary men and women into saints and angels. Patience is truly a fruit of the Spirit” (Dieter F. Uchtdorf).
An important and relevant example of patience can be found in the first few chapter of the book most sold in the world, the bible. It describes the process of creation the world by God, although He could do all of this creation in a fraction of a second, He spent seven days to conclude his creation with all details and perfection, but even with this and many other examples, the man still have difficulty to understand the importance of patience in your life. Patience has a relevant connection with between faith, obedience and perseverance, regardless the religion point and even though some people do not believe in the bible as a Word of God, there are many extraordinary examples of patience and faith. One of the notable is the story described in the book of John who was a person that further than an incredible faith in his God, he also understood and recognized virtue of patience to put his desire in hold for a time and wait for the time of his God, however he almost did not resist patiently all the tribulation he passed by proving that all human without exception suffer to improve and achieve a considered level of patience. “Patience is a godly attribute that can heal souls, unlock treasures of knowledge and understanding, and transform ordinary men and women into saints and angels. Patience is truly a fruit of the Spirit” (Dieter F. Uchtdorf).
Regardless the religion opinion of the person, patience is one of the elements that help individuals to achieve spiritual peace, spiritual progress and happiness, in the Buddhism religion for example, the Buddhists are worldwide known as individuals who dedicate entire life trying to achieve spiritual progress, part of this process to achieve it is directly associated to the way in which Buddhists manage their lives avoiding stressful environments and also exercising patience through meditations. The Christianity religion, which is the base of countless religions spread around the world, also uses the bible to emphasize the importance of patience as a fundamental role to achieve spiritual progress and perfection.
Besides the benefits in the spiritual lives, there are also many others covering the professional side, patients person has more chance to get a promotion than the impatient people. It does not means that inpatients are not able to develop and good job, but co-workers usually do not like to have a supervisor who explode emotions every time that something goes wrong, for this reason and because of the ability to build a solid relationship with others respecting and understanding their limitation, patient person can take advantage of the natural benefit of patience. There are also many professions around the world in which patience is extremely important.
A good example could be the profession of a police officer, it requires an unimaginable high level of patience to control his emotions in extremely situations, otherwise, there are going to be an incredible number of people being shot for irrelevant reasons. The airline companies are also another important example, during process of hiring cabin crew member, they require an specific test of patience and self-control that show the ability of pilots to have patience and self-control in front of many stressful situations, in this situations the simple fact of being patient or impatient can represent the life or death of several people during an emergency.
In the business world, patience is also one important attributes sought for many leaders and CEO because it shows It is becoming more common to see the patience of one criteria used during a process to hire an employee, specially The most notable difference between today and few decades ago is the general conception created by society, do not do something or do not achieve a goal in a short or long time can be interpreted as weakness or incapacity of the individual, but this conception has to. Having control of some emotions or part of the reality in which we are involved in or in which the individual has to achieve many goals as soon as possible and do not failure and if this happened, it is directly associated to the incapacity of a person that everything has to be done immediately and when a goal is not achieved this failure is associated to incapacity objective
Many health problems like blood pressure and high level of stress have relevant connection with stress but these problems could be minimized if people were more patient. Patience is the simply state of mind in which the individual has the capacity to understand and control the emotions with wisdom and efficiently and this is the fundamental role of patience related to spiritual life. There are many scientific studies that evidence the importance to develop the spiritual side in order to achieve interior peace, patience and self-control.
At times it is difficult to recognize what is best or expedient for you over time. Your life will be easier when you accept that what God does in your life is for your eternal good.
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