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"…the trying of your faith worketh patience"

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Announcements › Forums › Probation After Death — October 25th, 2020 › "…the trying of your faith worketh patience"

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  • October 20, 2020 at 7:39 pm #11598
    KarenM
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    “Knowing this,that the trying of your faith worketh patience.(James 1:3)
    “But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire wanting nothing”(James 1:4)

    From the The Student’s New Testament Compilation these comments about patience I found instructive. “Maclaren writes:’Notice that the vary language of the text puts aside the common notion that patience is a passive grace. The ‘patience’ of my text does ‘work’…the patience that James would have us all cultivate is an intensely active energy, and not a mere passive endurance. There is much force that goes to standing motionless when the wind is blowing. But, for all that, the mere bearing of trouble by no means covers the whole ground of this royal and supreme virtue to which my text is here exhorting us….. It is the fixed determination to “bate not one jot of heart or hope, but still bear up, and steer right onwards,’ in spite of all hinderances and antagonisms which may storm against us. It is perseverance in the the teeth of the wind, and not merely keeping our place in spite of it that James exhorts us to here. The ship with sails wisely set, and a firm hand at the tiller, and a keen eye on the compass, that uses the utmost blast to bear it nearer its desired haven…is the higher form (of patience)”

    October 23, 2020 at 6:15 pm #11606
    melissab
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    A wonderful insight about patience not a passive grace. The line : There is much force that goes to standing motionless when the wind is blowing is especially clarifying, thank you

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