Patience

[MrBeeman]

Dear Lord, grant me patience, but hurry...:biglol
No just kidding, but it looks like with the things I'm experiencing I'm going to get patience whether I want it or not.

 

[Angel]

You have to be careful what you ask for sometimes, eh?

 

[Sparkey]

I love the promise, "Where you are weak, there am I strong [for you and in you]. That's not a direct quote of 2Corinthians 12:10 but if your weakness is most evident after taking a stand for Him, know it is at these times -- although you may not see or feel it yet -- that the full power of Christ is carrying you through.

We are to consider it the chiefest source of our joy when we fall into various trials knowing (considering, thinking, understanding) that it is the trial of our faith that produces endurance and patience in us. Those who lack wisdom in this an other matter are to ask, with the understanding that God gives wisdom and "upbraideth not". This means He won't say, "Hey! What did you do with the last wisdom I gave you?" He upbraideth not.

He gives wisdom because we need to remain steadfast and no longer be like the leaf in the wind or the wave tossed by the sea. Our perfection as seen in the words of James is also our maturing. Nobody expects a plant to be mature when it is but a sapling (without time for growth) but the trials are there for a purpose. What purpose or reason was is given to us again? Trials are there to work patience and endurance into us.

Here is the end result, what we, while looking back from eternity will call our JOY:

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,

To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations:

Greetings.

[Trials and Temptations]

Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,a whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.