
A Banana Tree produces…. [bananas]
An Orange Tree produces…. [Oranges]
What does the Holy Spirit Produce? [Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self-Control ~ Ill. a mirror]
Today Patience… You know what patience isn’t: A man in Los Angeles was arrested for negligent discharge of a weapon after taking his 38 caliber handgun and shooting his toilet bowl five times. He says that he just got upset. He couldn't take it any longer. His daughter had flushed a hairbrush earlier in the day and clogged the pipes. So he shot the offending toilet. That is called “not patience.”
Jesus is a model of possessing patience: from Julie Nolan ~ “Jesus exercised patience when dealing with people, specifically the religious leaders of His day, and His disciples. Every time He told a parable, and tried to teach them something they needed to learn, one of the twelve would say they didn't understand. They were confused. He would have to explain it again, and again, in different ways. He must have been frustrated with them time and gain. But He was a patient man.”