Patience and Freedom

Patience is an aspect of the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22).
Love is patient (1 Cor. 13:4).

Can we conclude then, that God, whose nature and charatcer contain the maximal degree of every good attribute, is patient?

What does it mean to be patient? The Oxford American Dictionary defines it as "able to wait without becoming annoyed or anxious". This will suffice.

What does it mean for God to be patient? If God's nature, character, and decisions are causally sufficient to determine the existence and behavior of each and every object, and there exists no object outside of God or that which He sufficiently determines to exist and behave, then the only possible way for God to be patient is for Him to be patient with Himself.

However, doesn't the essence of patience require that the patient respectfully endure the existence or action of an object outside himself? For calling God "patient" implies the temptation of annoyance ar anxiety. But how can God be tempted to be annoyed or anxious with Himself? Is God schizophrenic?

I answer "no". I think God is patient with objects who act independently of Him and contrary to His will. I am forced to conclude that their power to do so was given them by God for a good reason, and they are only permitted to act by God's decree. But just as Jesus emptied Himself (Phil. 5-11), and sovereignly chose to not apply His power and right to be equal with God, so I believe God soveriengly choses to not apply His power and right to sufficiently determine every event. No, He allows persons the dangerous and yet beautiful and enabling power of free will.

Your thoughts? Does the Divine attribute of patience imply the free will of persons?