The importance of patience in relationship

The meaning of patience in Greek (Macrothmea) is suffering or slow to anger and love suffers because it is the nature of love to suffer. Lewis further defines loves as anything and your heart will certainly be wrong and possibly broken and we are called to love but we are commanded to love. It means loving when the person you are trying to love continue hurting you afresh, long suffering means that love suffers well. It takes a radical act of God in our lives to so change our hearts that we are willing to embrace pain and eschew pleasure.

We live in the instant generation where everything is instant coffee, instant messaging, instant porridge and computers need more memory and technology is fast and no patience at all from the people nowadays. So we now expect relationships to work the same way but it is not possible relationships they patience and is up to us to willingly to put things on the table. We must be prepared to invest time and effort in working them out.

Since the grass is always greener on the other side most single people wanted to be in the relationship that offers them companionship, emotional and physical connection and sometimes by looking too hard in life you will miss out in in trying to find the partner. It is not necessary to search for partners in the bars and clubs, but go out and have fun without any intention of meeting the love of your life. Things all ways turn out least unexpected and there’s nothing like pleasant surprise meeting someone out of the blue.

Evert relationship has its own problems but what makes it perfect is your when you still want to be there when thing are difficult and rosy. If you encounter problems bring them out and be open about them so that you will deal with them. People must not mistake silence with patience that can be the easy trap.

It means we must be patient with long suffering with an insufferable situation or person even if you are hurting yourself badly, because it is the will of God. It hurts terribly to love at times like that but that is what love does.