Friday, August 28, 2015

James 1:4 Patience

But let patience have it's perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

What a fascinating verse!  Think about it!  We tend to think of patience in a negative light.  

"I have to have patience in such a such a situation...or, "Dealing with 'so and so' requires so much (exasperated sigh) patience..."

When we think like that - as I many times do- we are actually cutting short the work of patience in our lives.  Not good.  God says to let patience have it's perfect work.

Do you know what that means?  

It means "let the work of patience be seen to fruition...let it complete itself in what it is doing."

Why?

So that we will be perfected - completed - lacking nothing.

I spoke to my husband, Mike.  He added:  "When we cut off patience, if we take note of what is in our hearts at that time of 'cutting off' we will see 'anxiousness, irritation and impatience.  We have an opportunity, then, to acknowledge these things as a sin in our life...confess them...and give them to God.  Repent.  

We can finally, then,  let patience begin to have it's perfect work in our lives.  Part of that work is to open up our eyes to the sin in our own lives and to purify our hearts from the sin that so easily makes its way into our lives.

As Christians, we are saved from sins eternal consequences, but we oftentimes forget just how damaging sin can be in the lives we have in this world...

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