It doesn’t promote hurry

 It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes. (Psalm 119:71 ESV)

The Bible doesn’t promote hurry.

Maybe that’s why God created mules and donkeys—as an illustration of how we should pace ourselves. They are plodders. They are very slow, but they have more endurance and can carry heavier loads than horses. They are the workhorses of the backwoods.

They can negotiate trails that horses would kill themselves on, carrying loads for miles that a horse couldn’t, especially not a racehorse.

Lord, help us to go slow. We shouldn’t waste time, but we need to trust the Lord instead of being rushed and impatient.

Patience indicates slowness, plodding along, doing our work persistently, and not wasting time, but also not getting fretful and worried and all worked up about it.

Impatience is marked by speed, hurry, rush, haste, push, pressure, tension.

Patience shows faith. Impatience shows lack of faith. Impatience shows that we don’t think the job is going to get done unless we hurry and push it and rush it.

But if we’ve got faith that Jesus is going to take care of it somehow, we can afford to be patient and go slow and do it right.—DBB [1]

For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. —Lily Tomlin

[1] Anchor Pace Yourself