Word
of God
Man
does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth from
the mouth of God
Matthew
4:4
The
Epistle of James 5:8
(Study
notes by Matthew Henry Edited/Prefaced by Doktor Riktor Von Zhades)
8
Be ye also patient therefore, and settle your hearts: for the coming
of the Lord draweth near.
Brethren:
What
more can be added to the above scripture? Bear your burdens with
humbleness, meekness and grace, face your trials with courage, resist
temptations with the Word of God. - Dr. R.V.Z
“Consider
well the meaning of these three expressions. Be patient —bear your
afflictions without murmuring, your injuries without revenge; and,
though God should not in any signal manner appear for you
immediately, wait for him. The vision is for an appointed time; at
the end it will speak, and will not lie; therefore wait for it. It is
but a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not
tarry. Let your patience be lengthened out to long suffering;’’
so the word here used, makrothymesate, signifies. When we have done
our work, we have need of patience to stay for our reward. This
Christian patience is not a mere yielding to necessity, as the moral
patience taught by some philosophers was, but it is a humble
acquiescence in the wisdom and will of God, with an eye to a future
glorious recompense: Be patient to the coming of the Lord. And
because this is a lesson Christians must learn, though ever so hard
or difficult to learn. Be you also patient. Establish your hearts
—let your faith be firm, without wavering, your practice of what is
good constant and continued, without tiring, and your resolutions for
God and heaven fixed, in spite of all sufferings or temptations. The
prosperity of the wicked and the affliction of the righteous have in
all ages been a very great trial to the faith of the people of God.
David tells us that his feet were almost gone, when he saw the
prosperity of the wicked, (See Psalm 73:2 -3)Some of those Christians
to whom St. James wrote might probably be in the same tottering
condition; and therefore they are called upon to establish their
hearts; faith and patience will establish the heart.” - Matthew
Henry
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