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FAITH As humans we're very fickle in our faith, aren't we?..smile. We are inconsistent, ambivalent. We sing "my faith looks up to Thee"... until, the bill comes due and we don't have what it takes to pay it. Until our grades slip or our career takes a turn or we loose a mate. We have faith for a few days, but we can't stand it for a month or two, and so forth. And if we lose our health.. oh boy that's another story. How do we learn consistent faith? We learn it one day at a time. We learn it through endurance. James writes:"consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurances. And let endurance have its perfect results, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing" (James 1:2-4). Actually, he's not talking about a will-o-the-wisp faith that starts out on the 100-meter sprint and, quicker than you can think, is over. Anyone can handle that kind of faith. Anyone can take ten, fifteen, or twenty minutes of a test. But ten days or fifteen days, or a year, or a two or three, and so on? Well, that's another matter. That's the enduring faith James is talking about. Long-term faith is part of perfect trust. In Christ's Love "Pray for blessings, not things." |
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11/5/2007 9:12 am |
"Pressed out of measure and pressed to all length; Pressed so intently it seem beyond strength. Pressed in body and pressed in soul; Pressed in the mind till the dark surges roll; Pressed by foes, pressure by friends; Pressure on pressure, till life nearly ends. Pressed into loving the staff and the rod; Pressed into knowing no helper but God." In Christ's Love "Pray for blessings, not things."
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1/9/2008 12:33 pm |
@ToBeADisciple> Thanks for sharing your words of wisdom. May God continue to bless you with wisdom , and knowledge/insight. "Pray for blessings, not things."
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