Week 34 Day 2

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On Anxiety and Impatience

Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

Philippians 4:5

We’ll look on all the toys below

With such disdain as angels do;

And wait the call that bids us rise

To mansions promised in the skies.

Can a person be too patient? Lincoln was patient, but he wasn’t so patient as to be ineffective. He had the fortitude to wait, but he didn’t wait so long as to miss opportunities. “While I am anxious, please do not suppose I am impatient,” he once said. Being patient does not mean endurance without action. It does not mean you should be tolerant to the extent that people and situations get the best of you. It simply means to wait for the right time to take action. Lincoln was anxious to win the war, but he was also patient. But he didn’t let his patience give his enemies time to take advantage, and he didn’t let his anxiety allow his enemies the opportunity to take advantage of hasty decisions.