“Dear brothers and sisters, be patient as you wait for the
Lord's return. Consider the farmers who patiently wait for the rains in the fall
and in the spring. They eagerly look for the valuable harvest to ripen, James 5:7 NLT."
Wait on God as
long as you have to, until He comes according to His promise and takes you out
of your suffering. Do not be hasty to take yourself out of trouble. " James 5:7
(AMP)
So be patient, brethren, [as you wait] till the coming of the Lord. See how the
farmer waits expectantly for the precious harvest from the land. [See how] he
keeps up his patient [vigil] over it until it receives the early and late
rains. 8 So you also must be patient.
Establish your hearts [strengthen and confirm them in the final certainty], for
the coming of the Lord is very near. Although the farmer
wishes his corn were already in the barn, he waits for it to ripen in the
ordinary course of God's providence. He is glad when the former rain comes, but
he wants the latter rain too, and waits for it, though it is long in coming.
And have we not all seen that a shower falling close to harvest time brings the
ear to its completeness? The fullest mercies are the ones we wait for the
longest. Jesus did not immediately supply wine at the marriage of Cana, as His
mother had asked, but they had the more for waiting awhile.
Hope assures the
soul that while God waits to perform one promise, He supplies another. This
comfort is enough to quiet the heart of anyone who understands the sweetness of
God's methods. There is not one minute when a believer's soul is left without
comfort. There is always some promise standing ready to minister to the Christian
until another one comes. A sick man does not complain if all his friends do not
stay with him together, as long as they take turns and never leave him without
someone to care for him.
We read of a tree
of life, "Rev.
22:2 (AMP) Through the middle of the broad way of the city; also, on either
side of the river was the tree of life with its twelve varieties of fruit,
yielding each month its fresh crop; and the leaves of the tree were for the
healing and the restoration of the
nations.†. What is this tree but Christ, who brings all
manner of fruit in His promises and comfort for all times and all conditions?
The believer can never come to Him without finding some promise to supply
strength until another is ripe enough to be gathered."
Quoted material from, ”The Christian
in Complete Armour Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare” by Gurnall and James S
Bell. http://www.moodypublishers.com/pub_productDetail.aspx?id=41823&pid=53617
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