3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
If we apply God's Word to our lives and especially when our faith is being tried as in verse 3, it teaches us patience. The work of patience grows as our faith matures. And that is our end goal, for our faith to be perfect.
It may not become as perfect as we would like. Not while we are on earth at least. But it surely will be once we go on to our heavenly home.
And in the meantime, it is a goal worth striving for. To learn to endure through the trials of life. Because that helps bring peace.
I recently had a relative that was going through a difficult situation with another person she thought might sue her over something. She was mad and honestly I could understand why because it was undeserved. But she had pretty much worked herself into a tizzy worrying about it to finally I told her to STOP, because it was like she was going to bring on her own heart attack.
She got good news the next day about it and has since not heard a word from this person or their lawyer.
Not that a lawsuit could not still happen but she needed to put her faith in to action. Not just lip service but real faith that God would get her through it no matter what and all the worrying she had been doing had not added a second to her life during that time.
Endurance is the fact or power of enduring an unpleasant or difficult process or situation without giving way:
There is no peace or joy in the worrying of a situation. But there is when we endure trials to their final end. And to ours.
Thanks for coming by today, Friends. Have a wonderfully blessed day!
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