Urgency is the Pressure
Forcing the Verdict is Not the Answer
Urgency is the Pressure. Verdict is the Power to Unleash it.
And the Devil is the One to Profit
Urgency Agitates the Nerves.
A forced verdict hijacks the judgment. Haste can be wielded as a weapon. Rushed judgment can become a tool for making the anxiety stop. When things feel like they are going wrong, stopping the emotion starts to matter more than discovering the Truth.
Take a pill. Nod at any answer. Feel better now on credit. Forget about credence tomorrow.
At what cost? Reputation? Conscience? The ability to hear God? Applause without heart? Strength without defense? Children panicking? Neighborhoods cracking? Reaction replacing witness?
Restraint is a Preservative
Patience looks passive to the urgent addict. Those in need of a quick shot of verdict have no time for that. But extracting answers before they are ripe decays your ability to resolve. It chooses aftermath over graduation. It promises today at the expense of tomorrow.
And here’s the real kicker: a bad verdict never makes the real problems go away. Calling the question before getting the due doesn’t achieve consolation. Scapegoating and spot-cleaning both avoid the needed sacrifice. Problems don’t get solved by hasty decisions. They get multiplied.
Premature solutions backfire. Rushing the job makes shoddy work. This is doubly true when the job was learning to be patient in the first place.
The hunger to escape, to avoid pain, to stop the fear, is insatiable. Dopamine does not care about what is true. Adrenaline forces control because it knows no other way. Without caution, without discipline, duress itself becomes its own addiction. The fires must exist in order to repeat the calming fervor of putting them out.
Sweeping the rug under itself creates a vacuum of never-ending “almost.” Hunkering down in obedience soon becomes more than a bad idea. It’s impossible. Patience starts to feel wrong. Cowardice starts to smell good.
Anything but nothing seems like an answer. Snap judgment, poor measure, and urgency become much more than an acquired taste. They become a permanent recipe.
This is Why Patience is Holy
Christianity is more than a status. It is the power of resistance. But it costs something.
You do not have to resolve before you obey. You do not need to explain to trust. There is no imperative to justify yourself before an angry God.
When you refuse to plead your case to history, when you defy rushing to the market, when you let the future come to you, the courtroom of urgency collapses. You do not need a plan when you are not confused. You do not need approval when you are free. You do not need your own good name when you have the Name of Jesus.
Patience is not about avoiding responsibility. It is not about calling injustice good. It is about refusing to rush the judgment. It is about praying that you have the endurance to wait on it. It is about knowing that you do not need to know what God’s will is yet in order to accept it.
We want foreknowledge. We want a submissive future. We demand mental control. We build stories to contain, verdicts to echo sound, outcomes to manage in nice little boxes signed with a flourish.
But Jesus Christ became sin for us. His grace is a power in weakness. His prophecy is a word already finished. His tomorrow is yesterday remaining Today.
Wisdom is a Pattern
Jesus Christ does not ask you to be at peace about evil. He commands you not to repay evil with more of itself.
Do not solve what time is assigned to answer. Do not answer what obedience is meant to carry. Do not strike when turning the other cheek will do.
Because you have been reserved. Because there is no falling behind. Because the foot of the cross was not a hasty verdict.
“It is finished.” That is a given. Theology is not a way to avoid the hurt. Wisdom is not a strategy for beating every trouble. Holiness is not a Spirit of demand.
Patience is never the end of the Christian. It is half of the glory of your rebirth from above being True.
