The
Trying of Our Patience Bringeth Forth Gold
Even
when nothing makes sense isn’t it wonderful our loving Father knows what’s
going on. He is indeed the one in charge. Sometimes it is difficult to
understand exactly what is happening. The lying voices come in and tell us if
only, "I should’a, I could’a, what if and why. "They keep us trapped in the
past and fearing the future. This is the plan of the enemy so we are unable to
become rooted in the now. God is moving in the NOW. He is trying to teach His
people to be sensitive to the NOW. One
of the biggest problems in the body of Christ is being consumed with the fears.
The fear of the past, the future, and of failure of not being in Gods will. This
cripples faith and without faith nothing is possible. Our Lord tells us to dwell
in the now, taking no thought for the morrow. Putting our hand to the plow and
not looking back. So often we are caught in the trap of rethinking where we have
been. It is His will for us to become more sensitive to the NOW so we may hear
His voice more clearly.
Some
are teaching today if our faith is not full enough, we suffer and do not see the
answers we request in prayer. Our Word teaches us the opposite. We are given
hope in tribulation and testing. It builds mature godly character, the fruit we
are to known by. One of the most fascinating lessons the Lord has taken me
through is what exactly is peace and patience. And how we achieve it. The Lord
desires we dwell in peace and safety. This does not mean above testing. But
growing to maturity because of it, clothed in the peace of God.
James
1:2 My brethren, count it all joy
when ye fall into divers temptations;
James
1:3 Knowing this, that the trying
of your faith worketh patience.
James
1:4 But let patience have her
perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
James
1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let
him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it
shall be given him.
James
1:6 But let him ask in faith,
nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the
wind and tossed.
James
1:7 For let not that man think that
he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
James
1:8 A double minded man is unstable
in all his ways.
What
he tells us in this passage is we will have temptations and trying. It is not
always attack from the enemy to destroy. But sometimes it is allowed from the
Lord to build up our faith and bring spiritual maturity. He also says we are to
ask for wisdom to help us endure tribulations and testing. He will give it to us
when we ask by true faith. If we waver, we are double minded and unstable in all
our ways.
What
we endure is meant to bring forth the fruit of the Spirit. This sounds so
foreign to most of us as we have been taught for years life with Jesus should be
easy. If it isn’t we are somehow out of His will. This is a fallacy. A trap
that ensnares us in guilt and self condemnation. Never quite about to walk in
the kingdom of God freely.
Remember
the kingdom is Righteousness, Peace, and Joy in the Holy Ghost. It cannot be
achieved by works, but only by full surrender. Maturity(perfectness) comes only
as we grow in grace. It is our Fathers desire
(as well as ours) to walk in the Spirit residing in the kingdom. Just
saying we are blessed or happy in many cases is a cover up for the pain and
destruction the is inside.
So
many go to church regularly but inside are close to death. They are afraid to
speak out and tell what is devouring them. Our religiousness has condemned many
to death by the hand of the brethren because of the fear of judgment. Even many
who are standing behind pulpits put on happy faces and are plagued with this
darkness. Where did we go wrong and why then do so few truly possess the kingdom
along with the freedom it promises?
I
know how it feels to become ensnared in my own mind. I have lived it. I almost
died because of the lie. There are so many who are unable to become free. I am
blessed the Lord has allowed me to achieve deliverance from this trap. And God
has a way of when you have endured something you are able to help others through
it. In II Cor. Paul give us an
exhortation that what we go through is not meant for bad. I now know what I
endured was not only meant to bring the peaceable fruit of righteousness for me,
but also to share with others.
2
Cor 1:4 Who comforteth us in all
our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble,
by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
2
Cor 1:5 For as the sufferings of
Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
2
Cor 1:6 And whether we be
afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the
enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be
comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
2
Cor 1:7 And our hope of you is
stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be
also of the consolation.
If
we allow God to bring us through whatever the situation is He will be glorified
by it! That is a promise. It is important to remember that His thoughts are not
ours. Generally we diminish what He can accomplish. Our human minds are so
limited. This is why we are commanded to take no thought for the morrow. As we
cannot think to the depths of God. Many times thinking on our tomorrow’s will
also bring forth fear and doubt.
When
we allow patience to have her perfect work, we will be perfect and entire
wanting for nothing. One thing which helped me to grow to full trust and
acceptance of difficult situations was when God revealed the true definition of
patience. It is as follows:
PATIENCE,
n. pa'shens. [L. patientia, from patior, to suffer.]
1.
The suffering of afflictions, pain, toil, calamity, provocation or other
evil, with a calm, unruffled temper; endurance without murmuring or fretfulness.
Patience may spring from constitutional fortitude, from a kind of heroic
pride, or from Christian submission to the divine will.
2.
A calm temper which bears evils without murmuring or discontent.
3.
The act or quality of waiting long for justice or expected good without
discontent.
Have
patience with me, and I will pay thee all. Matt.18.
4.
Perseverance; constancy in labor or exertion. He learnt with patience,
and with meekness taught.
5.
The quality of bearing offenses and injuries without
This
was freedom when I learned when hard things happened to me it was to bring forth
gold. If we put on the mind of Christ, it will change our perception of trials
and tribulations.
1
Pet 1:5 Who are kept by the power
of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
1
Pet 1:6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice,
though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold
temptations:
1
Pet 1:7 That the trial of your
faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried
with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of
Jesus Christ:
1
Pet 1:8 Whom having not seen, ye
love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy
unspeakable and full of glory:
1
Pet 1:9 Receiving the end of your
faith, even the salvation of your souls.
In
HIS Service,
Teresa
Daly-Crews
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