Thoughts#2324
Patience and
faith
Like faith, there is another force that goes along
with it that is just as important. It is patience, the ability to stand fast on
the Word of God even when your victory
seems slow in coming.
Patience is not automatic. It would not go to work
unless you let it go to work. It is wrong to think that faith and patience will
go to work for us without our help. We just let the devil tear our lives apart.
In the first place, James says, "Let no man say
when he is tempted, I am tempted of God" (James 1:13). And in the second
place, that trial is not going to make your faith stronger. In fact, it will
destroy it if you will let it.
James 1:4
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be
perfect and entire, wanting nothing.