One morning while I was doing my devotions, I felt the Spirit of God telling me to be patient. At the time, I didn't think much about it, thought it was just some random thought or just a daily reminder kinda thing. But that day, the patient I was caring for was having her "down-day". It was quite hard for us carers, as she wouldn't respond, wouldn't eat nor drink for the whole day. At one point, I lost a little of my patience and tried to give her some water with a little bit more force, using merely human effort. Well, she did respond to it, but still didn't drink. At the end of the day, I had the "Moses" feeling, where he lost his patience towards the Egyptians and struck the rock.
While I was driving home, I thought about my day and my actions, and I remembered what the Holy Spirit was trying to tell me in the morning. Then it dawned on me that that was actually a reminder and preparation that God was giving me to face the day. He did ask me to be patient, just that I didn't take it seriously and did not apply it throughout my day. I should have taken it more seriously and clung on to it throughout the day. Then I realized, maybe God does it for us, every single time we are going to go through a difficult situation. He prepares us, but most of the time, we don't realize it. And because of our insensitivity to the Spirit, we ignore the preparations or "warnings", or we forget about it when we're in the difficult situation.
So next time, I shall be more sensitive and make sure I take whatever the Spirit is telling me seriously.. =p
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