The lord is patient

The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you.2 Peter 3:9 (NIV)

When we are offended we are quick to respond. We feel as if we deserve, or are owed and should not be denied our say. We must speak. We must act. In our haste, we often say or do things that we are soon to regret. If we were just, “Quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger.”

Spurgeon wrote: But now, the Lord Himself comes forth to Adam, and note how He comes. He comes walking. He was in no haste to smite the offender, not flying upon wings of wind, not hurrying with His fiery sword unsheathed, but walking in the garden. "In the cool of the day" — not in the dead of night, when the natural gloom of darkness might have increased the terrors of the criminal; not in the heat of the day, lest he should imagine that God came in the heat of passion; not in the early morning, as if in haste to slay, but at the close of the day, for God is long suffering, slow to anger, and of great mercy; but in the cool of the evening, when the sun was setting upon Eden's last day of glory, when the dews began to weep for man's misery, when the gentle winds with breath of mercy breathed upon the hot cheek of fear; when earth was silent that man might meditate, and when heaven was lighting her evening lamps, that man might have hope in darkness; then, and not till then, forth came the offended Father.

He is patient with us.

GiGi❤️