James 1:
2 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,
3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Joy?? Count it joy when I go through trials?? or hard times?? Or insulting and rude people?? Or computer problems??
Yes!! Anything in life worth having is worth fighting for and worth working hard for. Life is hard and it will throw us a curve ball or two (or three or four or five..six..seven..eight....--->).
The trick is to keep going and that these are needed to strengthen us. Can you imagine what the world could be like in just a few years?
Are you ready? If we can't hold strong under these small day to day problems, how are we ever going to handle the big stuff that we may face.
A child who is learning to play ball, will miss the ball more than not. But if he keeps going and keeps at it then soon he will catch almost all of them. As he grows then he will rarely miss the ball. He will learn to feel the ball, he will learn to know when the ball is coming his way and just how to handle it before the ball gets there. He will be ready for it.
This is what we need to learn to do.
Quote:
Endurance!!
staying power, stamina, fortitude, resolution, durability, strength, survival
antonym: weakness
persistence, perseverance, tenacity, continuance, survival, duration
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Resist the devil and he will flee!! It does get easier, just don't give up no matter how it seems as if everything is against you.
Verse 4:
4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Perfect and complete. Lacking in NOTHING!!!! That is the reward for standing strong and enduring (which is it's own reward)
posted by Star @ 11:58 PM
