Patience. This is one virtue often misunderstood in our world. A patient person is often seen as foolish and cowardly because they do not respond to offences or infringement of their rights in a predictable manner.
Many fights and quarrels would have been averted if one or either of the parties exercised patience. Many of the road accidents happening on our roads are the product of impatience. The vice of impatience has robbed many people of their joy, destroyed marriages and caused untold hardship to others.
If patience is good, how come we find it difficult to exercise it? I believe it is because impatience is the easy way out. It takes a lot of work to maintain an even temperament in the face of provocation. To lash out however, is much easier. We feel better when we have...
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The word ‘content’ as an adjective is becoming more and more obscure in today’s language. I looked up the word ‘content’ in the dictionary and the meaning was as follows; ‘Satisfied with what one is or has; not wanting more or anything else’. Another dictionary defined contentment as a ‘feeling of or showing satisfaction with one’s possession, status or situation.
I am sure if we take a poll of people who are contented in line with the above definitions, the statistics will show a very low figure. This leads us to the question, should we be contented with what we have or where we are? Would...
A few days ago, I was at home watching a documentary on how some Japanese youth were being taught how to identify with the old people. They were taught that as a person ages, certain organs of the body begin to fail. Some of the effects could be blindness, stroke, arthritis among others.
Thomas is not with the other disciples in the upper room on this night of great rejoicing. So devastated by Jesus’ death is he that he has no desire to see anyone, even the other disciples. In fact, he has no more desire to live. He sits all day thinking of all the horrible things that have happened in the past little while. He recalls Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem, and how joyous an occasion that was. But it seemed from then on everything went downhill for his Lord and his friends and himself.
Was it all just a farce?
He...
Was it all just a farce?
He...
Matthew 26:36-46; Mark 14:32, 33, 36, 37; Luke 22:39-45; John 18:1.
Jesus and the disciples, all twelve, have spent hours fellowshipping together over the meal--the Last Supper.. Jesus dips the morsel into the sop and hands it to Judus. Judas accepts it. Christ declares Judas the traitor. J...
