The Sin of Impatience

I don't believe that there is anything more dangerous than a refusal to wait on God--to doubt His timing in keeping His promises. First, it is to doubt His ability to do as He says, and, even worse, to doubt His willingness to keep His promises. It is a lack of faith in His character--in His faithfulness and goodness. Does He not make it clear in His Word that the surety of His promises rest solely on His character as the faithful, immutable God who cannot lie? To say the wrong things about God is a dangerous choice. Job's friends were guilty of that sin, and if Job hadn't interceded on their behalf, they were in big trouble.
Another danger in such impatience is that too often it leads to our trying to take things into our own hands. We deify our wisdom and power. We try to get people to do what we want them to do, when we want them to do it. We try to manipulate the situation to make it as we believe it should be. We act as if we are wiser than He is. Deadly. If those people do what we want them to do because of our manipulation then they are responding to us and not to the Spirit. How effective will that "spiritual" change be? Their "power" to change--their "boot strap" Christianity will not last long--and they will end up frustrated or even more resistant to God's leading. They may just give up trying to follow Him believing it to be impossible. Their spiritual transformation will be an illusion--an undermining of their faith--simply because we in our impatience with God's will and our lack of faith in Him and His promises deified ourselves. That's a storm that will being down the house. And remember, the greatest tragedy in the life of a fool--a Christian fool--is that all those he or she claimed to love will be in the house when it comes crashing down.
A third danger with such impatience is the effect it has on my prayer life. Every day I am commanded to cast my care on Him. Every day He promises to give me enough strength for what this day will bring forth. When I fail to do that--to wait on Him in prayer about the situation--I lose a sense of His presence. I lose a sense of His love and care for me. I make the problem my problem and not His. I become overwhelmed with worry, I become easy prey for the roaring lion. Instead of deepening my intimacy with the Lover of my Soul, I draw away from Him--deny His heart's desire to do good for me at the exact best time for that good to touch my life and deepen my faith in Him and my experiential understanding of the depth and height and immeasurable breadth of His love for me. I reject His love.
Ah, the consequences of the deadly sin of impatience with God--a loss of faith, a denial of His character, power, and goodness, an undermining of the faith of others, a distancing of myself from His love. "Wait on the Lord" is itself a command--a command with its own promise. They who wait on Him soar on eagle's wings. And the greater the storm the higher their faith in Him and His faithful promises will rise. "Wait, I say, on the Lord."