Me, Impatient? No Way!

 If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep you from speaking? Job 4:2 NIV Bible

This seems to be a very appropriate verse for me right now. I was trying to update a post on another blog: 

Books of the Bible [in SmallerChunks] at https://bibleinsmallerchunks.blogspot.com/ 

Anyway, I kept trying to put the newer versions of some of the recently edited Bible chapters in my post. But it seemed that some glitch or another would happen to them. It probably has something to do with my computer, because it froze up on me earlier this morning! 

Fortunately, before I started working on this project with the updated chapters, I prayed asking the Lord God to give me the Peace Which Passes All Understanding. 

Satan must have been wanting to test my faith, because there were no less than ten times that errors would happen, when I was trying to paste these in. In the past, I would have eaten when I was frustrated over something like this. But when this would happen, I would always remember that God is All-Powerful, and these issues would be resolved. Not of my own patience or technical abilities, but the Lord God took care of these issues, and kept me from losing my cool! I really should pray for His Peace Which Passes All Understanding more often, because there are some times I don't respond as calmly. 

Trying Again, and What a Major Difference That Made for Me

 Let us search and try out ways, and turn again to the Lord. Lamentations 3:4 KJV Bible

I wrote some time ago, about my blunders related to going to a buffet. I know better than to even step foot into a buffet, but sometimes it seems like the most appropriate place to go with those you are eating with. 

This time, I prayed about it before I went, and praying to the Lord God first, made a major difference! Actually, I just realized that it's because the other people I was meeting at the buffet hadn't arrived yet, which allowed me the extra time to pray before stepping in there. In fact, as I retrace this situation in my mind, I had tried to go inside the restaurant, but they had the doors locked because they don't open the doors before the official opening time. 

The Lord worked a major miracle for me, since buffets are one of my bigger eating temptations! It turned out that this time, I didn't heap my plate up with food like I normally do, in order to get my money's worth! But writing about this situation made me realize the Lord had a lot of things fall into play for all of this to happen. First, the others hadn't arrived yet, when they could have been there. Then, the restaurant doors were locked, but they could have been opened. All these things left me with extra time in my car trying to think about what to do while I wait. Then, it dawned on me that I should pray about my temptations with buffets. It made an amazing difference for me. Not only was I not hungry after I ate a normal sized plate of buffet food, but I had a special calmness that only the Lord God can give. I call it The Peace Which Passes All Understanding! But He reminded me that I need to be more prayerful before I attempt things that might be a temptation, not only with foods, but with interactions with others, etc! This was the most productive time I've had while waiting for others, ever!