bigREAL Qualities
The seasoning work of a follower of Christ, is a life long process.
Wait with "calm expectancy" because that's how everything really works (7,8).
- the farmer waits
- he has to depend on God
- the LORD waits
the Lord is not slow in keeping his promise as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come repentance. 2 Pet. 3:9
Real patience waits for deliverance; it doesn't cause division(9)
Don't attack each other when it becomes uncomfortable because you need comfort and you're attacking the wrong people. You will add to your discomfort, judgment.
Hanging in there with "patient endurance" is the gold medal standard of authentic faith (10-11)
Prophet-like faith is to be the normal Christian life.
Then the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity though you incited me against him to ruin him without reason". Job 2:3
Our glory comes after God has totally vindicated His!
What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects his wrath-prepared for destruction? What if he did this to make riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy whom he prepared in advance for glory-even us, who he also called...
When I am in pain, when I am in pain, when I am in pain...get me Jesus!
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