The day went fine and I managed to finish what I set out to do today. Thank God! However, it just took something seemingly insignificant to annoy me and put me on my nerves. I just emerged from it.
It was the tiny specks of dried dust on my black pants.
I was going to iron my pants for tomorrow, but I couldn't help but notice these little imperfections on it. It's been weeks since I notice it as it accumulates to become unignorable and I was wondering why weeks of washing didn't make any difference, in fact it became worse. It took me an hour thereabouts to do the little I could and not to much avail. I tried scraping it off with my nails, tried wetting it in hoping it'd accelerate. It just didn't work out. What an opportunity for me to exercise patience and self-control not to respond in annoyed actions like throwing it on the floor and making loud noises, even the thought of tearing that pants apart came to my mind. Huh! Thank God I resisted it and I still have pants to wear for tomorrow.
It just reminded me all over that there are many imperfections around us to remind us of our humanity and more crucially, our total inability to be perfect, to match to God's standards, as said in the Scripture,
"For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard."
~Romans 3:23 (NLT)
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