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Overcoming Modern Annoyances: Cultivating Patience and Humility in a Comfort-Driven World

In a world where conveniences breed expectations, we often find ourselves more easily annoyed by minor discomforts. This reflective piece explores how our increasing comfort levels can lead to impatience, lack of humility, and a sense of entitlement. By examining biblical teachings and our personal experiences, we can recognize the need for endurance through trials and develop the character necessary to serve God. It challenges readers to consider how their reactions to inconveniences reflect their spiritual maturity and encourages growth beyond immediate comforts.

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Overcoming Modern Annoyances: Cultivating Patience and Humility in a Comfort-Driven World

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  1. What Annoys You? Inconveniences? Imperfections? Insults? • We can not stop them from existing, but we can stop them from annoying

  2. Why Do They? • The more comfortable we become the easier it is to annoy us with little discomforts • We have become far too comfortable • 2 Tim. 2:3-4 endure and don’t be entangled • Age of Instantitus (mircowave generation) • Immediate relief from medicine • Switch for light, warmth, entertainment

  3. Limited Experience • Have not been there or done that • Deut. 6:10-12 (did not fight battles or see miracles) forgot God provided the blessings • Heb. 11:35-39 • We are too young to have faced trials • We have been too pampered in parents home • We are too selfish to consider others 1 Cor. 13:5 (Love is not easily provoked)

  4. Our Former Luxuries Are Seen As Current Necessities • Comforts are expected (disappointed) • Ease is an entitlement (age, nation, union) • We have developed recliner reasoning • Luke 12:16-21 • All thoughts were about himself • Worried because I have a problem • Comforted because I have a solution

  5. Where Are We Spiritually? • Lack Patience (comes by enduring trials) • Rom. 5:3-5 • Lk 21:19In your patience possess ye your souls. • Lack Humility (Esther: Easy Annoyances) • Vashti Vanquished: 1:12, 15-19 • Haman Humiliated: 3:2, 5-6 • Ahasuerus Arrogance: 4:11-14

  6. Where Are We Spiritually? • Lack Patience • Lack Humility • Lack Self Control (Jonah 4:6-11) • Prov. 25:28 • Prov. 19:11 • Prov. 16:32 • Ultimately we lack the character needed to serve God and enter heaven

  7. When Will We Change? • Phil. 2:14-16 • Do all things without complaining • To be children of God • To be different from the worldly people • To display the way of salvation to others • One measure of character is how little or much it takes to annoy you.

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