“Hallelujah, Anyhow” by Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
Hebrews 10: 35 – 36
35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. 36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Temptation through Impatience (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Confidence, Patience & Good Cheer
Those of us who know The LORD must maintain confident and not let go of our faith. Discouragement is a strong weapon of the enemy of our souls. Patience is essential. Patience implies that we are willing to wait cheerfully. Cheer chases away disappointment, so when we remain patient, the temptation to sin is less. Impatience, causes us, like Sarah, to try and hurry everything up. We do ourselves great harm when we attempt to improvise on the will of God and “add on” where we believe The LORD “has left off.”
Trying to complete the work of God by using our own imagination, objectives, and means is more than impatience: It is a lack of faith. This very dangerous path puts us in a position of being the objects of God’s displeasure, because “Without faith it is impossible to please God.” This danger alone should be enough to prevent us from pursuing rash actions. Patience is more than a virtue, it is a grace. Remember:
37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. 38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Heb 10:37-39 (KJV)
Dont forget to bless the name of the Lord and to be a blessing to someone today.
Until we meet again: “Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.” (Ephesians 6:10)
Your friend in Christ,
Verneda
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