Our impatience is from our screaming flesh. Here is why we struggle. The Holy Spirit is resisting our flesh and our flesh is resisting the Holy Spirit. Our fleshly reactions are chaff that cling to our wheat. Our trials are like a sieve that separates the chaff from the grain. 

Amos 9:9 was about Israel being sifted. It says, “…as grain is sifted in a sieve; yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground.” Matthew 17:20 likens our faith as the size of a mustard seed. 

Romans 12:3 says that we each have a measure of faith. Peter charged his readers to add to their faith. My dad called them inward graces. Peter repeatedly wrote about the knowledge of God ~ essential.

Proverbs 9:10 says, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.” James 1:5 says that if we lack wisdom, we can ask Him.