Patience Is Necessary

James 5:7-11

One of the essential character traits that every Christian must develop to live in this world is patience. Throughout history and as revealed in scripture, it has been the major challenge of people to wait patiently upon the Lord. Very few of us make it very far in our walk without developing this issue of patience. Words like “due time” and “appointed time, ”words like “seasons” indicate that patience is a process involve waiting under testing, while not having control in our situation. That’s what makes patience such a challenge. It touches every aspect of our walk with God; it touches our endurance, it touches our issues of commitment, it touches issues of faith and overall, our faithfulness to whatever God has called us to do in this world.

As we live for Him and walk with Him, patience becomes a critical issue. When we are talking about patience it affects our waiting with an expectation, but secondly it also affects our enduring in any situation, then thirdly it affects delaying an impulse action. Patience becomes a critical matter that must be developed in us. Many times we are there having to endure, having to wait with no control over the time and no control over the circumstances. We’re trusting God while we’re waiting on Him.