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Learning to respond to irritations positively will enable you to transform your irritations into
pearls.

4. Inactivity

You can learn a lot about people by watching how they wait… They just can’t stand and wait.

They have to do something to feel they are in control.

The Bible says, “Impatience will get you into trouble” (Prov. 19:2 GNT). Medical researchers
agree with that. They have discovered a whole new disease called “hurry sickness.” Drs. Meyer
Friedman and Ray H. Rosenman say that 90 percent of heart attack victims have this “hurried”
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type A personality. Their habitual impatience gets them into trouble.

HOW TO BECOME A PATIENT PERSON

What causes impatience? A lack of peace. Perhaps that is why God put patience right
after peace in the list of the fruit of the Spirit. When you have peace in your heart, almost
nothing can make you impatient. But when you do not have peace in your heart, almost
anything can make you impatient. So how can you learn to be a patient person? The Bible

reveals a four-part answer.

1. Develop a New Perspective

First, develop a new perspective. Find a new way of looking at the situation or the person that is
giving you problems

If you are impatient, you have a limited perspective.

All I see is myself: my needs, my desires, my goals, my wants, my schedule, and how people are
messing up my life. The root of impatience is selfishness. I need to get a new perspective on life.
I need to learn to see things from other people’s points of view.

“A man’s WISDOM gives him patience; it is to His glory to overlook an offense” (Prov. 19:11)

Wisdom is seeing life from God’s point of view, getting God’s perspective on a situation.

3 Important Insights

(1) I am only human; I am not God. I am not perfect, and I am not in control.