What bores you?
One’s meat is another’s poison, and what is boring to one can be interesting to another.
When one is duty-bound to stay in a boring meeting or a boring conversation etc., then the fellow who is trapped in boredom warrants a sympathy. If, however, one can leave the boring situation without any repercussions but chooses to stay, then his or her boredom is self-inflicted.
Nevertheless, one situation where I may, from time to time, be trapped in boredom but cannot walk out of it is that of a most boring, if not unbearable, sermon being preached by someone on the church pulpit. If I choose to leave the assembly worship wherever I hear a sermon spoken from the flesh and not from the Spirit, I am afraid nine times out of ten I have to ask God to grant leave to me.
The lesson for boredom is patience, tolerance, acceptance and most of all humility. For every coin has two sides, the side to choose is the side of the Spirit. The fruit of the Spirit is, among others, kindness and self-control (Galatian 5-22-23). Staying in for the boring sermon is the act of kindness, digging out the pearl hidden in the cited scriptures through earnest studies and prayers is much more pleasing to God.
Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit (Galatian 5:25).
✨✨💖 ~
en yan hua fang 