Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools. (Ecclesiastes 7:8, 9 ESV)
How is a new baby, and Apple's iOS 5 the same? Answer...I am currently waiting for both!
How well do you wait? I am struggling as to how to answer at this very moment. My wife's due date for our fourth child was Sunday. We have never had to wait all the way up to the due date before. We have now passed the "due" date by three days. The "due date" is supposedly the date where our family will be "updated."
We are fans of Apple (when I say "we" I mostly just mean "me"). Apple has said that today is the "due" date for iOS 5 software, and the introduction of iCloud. Today is the day supposedly my iPhone will be "updated."
Neither "due dates" have happened yet, so again I ask myself "how well am I waiting?"
Why is the "patient in spirit" contrasted with the "proud in spirit?" Normally when things are contrasted in the Scriptures, it is because I am either one or the other (the whole law of the excluded middle thing). I think it is because the one who is patient in spirit, has not allowed "anger" to "lodge" with them, and the person who is proud in spirit, has allowed anger to come inside and live with them for an undetermined length of time.
Does anger walk by both houses? It is probably something like when death walked by both the homes of the Israelites and the homes of the Egyptians. The blood of the slain lamb was the one thing that kept death from coming inside the house.
May the blood of the One who was slain for me and my family keep anger from entering here. May He cover you this morning as you wait for more or less important things.
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