James 1:2-4 - Geneva Bible
2 My brethren, count it exceeding joy, when ye fall into divers tentations,3 Knowing that the trying of your faith bringeth forth patience,
4 And let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking nothing.
Father, today is a day that You have made for us all. Help us to understand Your word, amen
Brethren:
Let us learn to be joyful and glad at all times, but in particular during trials and temptations. This is what brings out and refines the triumphant new man that God has created in us when we accepted Christ as Savior. Now let me be clear, it is not God that brings forth these diver trials, but allows them to work as agents that perfect us. Remember always that our trust is placed in Him to deliver us out of each of them. RP Woitowitz Sr.
“As a rule, the time required for the production of an effect measures the value of that effect. The things that can be developed quickly are of less value than those which require longer time. You can weed a garden or build a house in a much shorter time than you can educate a mind or build up a soul. The training of our reasoning faculties requires a much longer time than the training of our hands. And moral qualities, being higher than intellectual, make an even greater demand upon the patience of their cultivator. Let us remember where it is that we are to get patience in the presence of temptations and sorrows. We must go in prayer, as our Master did in the garden of Gethsemane, to the source of all strength. If He would not go to His trial unprepared, it certainly is not safe for us to do so. By a stroke from the sword the warrior was knighted, small matter if the monarch's hand was heavy. Even so God gives His servants blows of trial when He desires to advance them to a higher stage of spiritual life. Jacobs become prevailing princes, but not until they have wrestled with temptations and prevailed.”
EJ Hardy
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