James 1:12 1599 Geneva Bible (GNV)
12 Blessed is the man, that endureth tentation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Father, help us all to understand Your word, amen
Brethren:
Once again we read that God blesses those that endure to the end the diver temptations that he allows to come upon us. All are designed to refine us along the way and to make us closer to His image until such time as it is completed and we receive the crown of glory upon our arrival in Heaven. (Read also Job 5:17) - RP. Woitowitz Sr.
“UNDER the afflictions with which we are visited in this vale of tears, philosophy has suggested many grounds for resignation and submission: but to find in them matter for self-congratulation and joy, was beyond the reach of unassisted reason. To that however are we led by the voice of revelation, which teaches us to look with confidence to a future state, wherein all that we endure for God, and in meek submission to his will, shall be compensated with a weight of glory, proportioned to the trials we have here sustained for his sake, and the spiritual improvement which we have derived from them. St. James, who wrote to his Jewish brethren who were scattered abroad through the violence of persecution, frequently repeats this consolatory idea. He begins with bidding them to “count it all joy when they fall into divers temptations. Towards the close of his epistle he declares this to be at least the persuasion of his own mind. Behold, we count them happy that endure But in the text he does not hesitate to affirm it as an unquestionable truth, that such persons are truly blessed: Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. Now as he spake this by inspiration from God, I shall consider it as a declaration from God himself; and shall unfold to you.” Charles Simeon
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