Quick Fix

If someone were to tell me that every pain, addiction, or sin could be taken care of overnight, I'd join in the cheering and immediately ask where I needed to go. You see, when something is painful or annoying to us, we will do anything to make it go away. The irony of it all is that we want the situation to change just like that. For example, if it is something that we are addicted to, we want God to take away our desires and the addiction right away. How long did it take for us to become addicted to whatever it is? It surely didn't happen overnight, so why do we so often expect or even demand that something be fixed overnight? When I am in pain, I have little patience. I want whatever it is to go away immediately. This weekend I ended up with a random rash covering my body, and immediately after going to the doctors I expected it to go away. That's not how it works. It took away for that rash to even come about. I was scratching for days before the rash even showed up. But yet, I expect it to go away after one round of medication? This applies in so many areas of our lives. The quick fixes that we so desperately search for are rarely ever successful. Sometimes we have to dig deep into the issue and work through it for a while before we even start to see a change. Instead of searching for that quick fix, I am going to choose to learn patience and work through things.