Impatience is defined by Bridges as a strong sense of annoyance at the (usually) unintentional faults and failures of others. We tend to express our impatience verbally by humiliating the person(s) who is the object of our annoyance.
The key to understanding our impatience is that it's usually a response to an unintentional action of another. I often get annoyed and become impatient by people that walk "too" slow. The people walking slow aren't doing it to purposely annoy me and perhaps they physically can't walk as fast.
God includes patience over and over again in Scripture because He knew we would struggle with it. Patience is a fruit of the spirit. In Ephesian's 4:2 we are told to, "Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love."
We need to understand that the cause of our impatience lies within our own hearts. It lies within our own attitude of insisting that others around us should conform to our expectations.
Here's your challenge. Ask your spouse or family member what you're impatient about and as hard it will be (for us stubborn folks) acknowledge those things and repent! Impatience is a sin!
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