Allowing Patience To Do A Work

In James 1:2, it says to “count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations.” We usually worry, scramble, and try to get out of the situation of difficulty, pressure, or stress. Read 1 Peter 1:6-7, “Wherein ye greatly rejoice though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth.” God uses trials to try and prove our faith, but out of the trial, there is a forming and developing of patience. Our days are not always wonderful. Paul stated in Philippians 4:11, “Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.” He learned to let patience rise and do a work. So why should we joy in trials? Because we’re going to receive a measure of patience which does an inner work for us. Patience develops confidence in God, His Word, His promises, and how we believe. Many times we are instructed to be still and wait upon the Lord (patience develops). We have the need to receive patience before we receive the promises of God.