A Daily Devotional – James, the Epistle – Personal Meditation (15)

A Daily Devotional – James, the Epistle – Personal Meditation

Comment: 2 Peter 3:8 – But, beloved, do not forget this ONE thing, that with the LORD one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The LORD is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing than any should perish but that all should come to repentance. Do we, God’s children by personal faith in the Christ/Messiah have things in our lives to turn away from? “Do any of us lack patience?” Let him or her ask God, God gives us patience; it will be given if we ask! James 1:5. We are not to live by personal faith on our time schedule, but on God’s, which is not slack as some of us think.

Devotional: There are many observations around the world that reveal the impatient, impulsive and emotional wreck of human life. Believers of the gospel of God ought not be counted in this massive disaster, yet time after time when God’s children get caught up in the details of life it is because they have fail to wait on the LORD’s mercy. What if the farmer dug up his potatoes before the harvest time? Would those small marble like potatoes sell, or provide delight to one’s palate? 

We grumble over things among one another as if we are the judge and jury. This; if we were ‘spiritually concerned’ would never happen; meaning that because we have little or no perseverance, we judge wrongly. The Judge who is standing by the door “same as Revelation 3:20” is the valued Friend of Ecclesiastes 4:12. As brothers and sisters of Christ, should we not consider the examples of God’s prophets who spoke in the Name of the LORD as an example of suffering and patients? Yes! And again, I say yes.

Blessed are those who endure, consider the endurance (perseverance) of Job. Do you think that James speaks idly, in his epistle? No! No not at all. The LORD’s intended outcome for Job was full of compassion and mercy, and so it will be for you and me, when we learn patience by enduring the trials arranged by the LORD. In this; Do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath. But let your “Yes” be “Yes” and your “No” be “No”, otherwise you fail the test and fall into judgment, and you may have to do it all over again.