Productive Patience
“.. knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing .” James 1 : 3 - 4 NKJV Just as the difference between a producing economy and its consuming counterpart requires patience and perseverance, a believer's faith in the promises of God requires patience as a vital ingredient. While pressure puts men and their mercenaries in action, patience in any man relies absolutely on God and relays God’s reliance in man. In the school of patience, the hearts are blessed with wisdom, faith, righteousness, and the deeper revelations on the subject matter. Unfortunately, a deceived heart often thinks that patience implies indolence and the absence of intelligence. Like Gehazi, those who have ever dropped out of the school of patience have always fallen from grace into the grave with leprosy, lukewarmness, and looseness. But with the productive patience comes the perfect work of grace, where...