Proverbs 9:8 “So don’t waste your time on a scoffer; all you’ll get for your pains is abuse. But if you correct those who care about life, that’s different-they’ll love you for it!”
I find it very exciting when you’re planting a garden and the day finally comes when the stuff is ready to harvest. I’m an impatient person so I plant the seeds and give it an hour before running out and checking it, hoping that God decided to give me a miracle and make my plants grow ten times faster. You can imagine how antsy I get over a week of waiting. People are the same way with receiving correction in their life. If someone’s heart is not ready to take in Christ or to take in a correction, telling them or trying to bring them in to that thinking early will only push them away or cause problems. If you try to bring in corn before it’s ready, it’s useless and you just waste all that time and work put into it because of impatience. You have to be patient with people and wait for their heart to be ready because it will be useless otherwise. It will be like talking to a brick wall. Let God’s timing work on their hearts and don’t let your antsy human nature get in the way of what He’s trying to do with them.
2 Peter 3:9 “The Lord isn’t slow about keeping His promises, as some people think He is. In fact, God is patient, because He wants everyone to turn from sin and no one to be lost.”
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