Our scripture text this morning is Isaiah Tety v. 1 through 5.

War to the rebellious children says the Lord who carry out a plan but not mine and who make a leak but not of my spirit that they may add sin to sin.

Who said out to go down to Egypt without asking for my counsel,

to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt.

Therefore, shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shim and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.

For though his officials are at Ruane and his invoice, Hanise. Everyone comes to shame through a people that cannot profit them.

That bring neither help no profit but shame and disgrace.

Impatients is a form of unbelief.

It's what begins to rise in your heart when you begin to doubt the wisdom of God's timing or the goodness of his guidance springs up when the road to success gets muddy or gets boulders on it or a big tree falls across it and blocks it and cuts you off from where you thought you should be or when you thought you should be there. And the battle with

impatience can be as small as a little skirmish in a slow checkout lane at the store,

or it can be as big and massive a combat as when you have a handicap or a disease or a circumstance that cuts off half your dreams.

The opposite of impatience is not a glib superficial denial of frustration.

The opposite of impatience is a deepening, sweetening willingness

to stand in the place that God has appointed or to move at the pace that God has appointed.

Maybe that'll help you remember. pace that God has appointed.

Maybe that'll help you remember.

The opposite of impatience is the willingness to stand in his place and go at his pace.

Now when you plan your day out or plan your life out and it gets cut off in the middle or

slowed or bogged down, the temptation of impatience moves in two directions.

Depends partly on your personality, which way you go, partly on circumstances.

Let me describe the two directions that impatience can push you.

One is to give up, to throw in the towel.

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