Bathe yourself in this rough sea, till, by God’s blessing, it hath strengthened you and cleansed you, for to that end he sends it, and that it may perfect you by discipline, educating all your spiritual faculties, and bringing out all your powers for his glory. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.Įndure everything suffer everything that God sends you. Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. Welcome them do not sorrow over them, but rejoice in them. Your choicest mercies come to you disguised as your sharpest trials. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations ĭo not sorrow over your trials, do not look upon them as misfortunes and calamities, they are black vessels, but they are loaded with gold. Where is the fiction of the ten lost tribes? He writes to the twelve tribes that were scattered abroad, and gives them greeting, so that this Epistle is first directed to the seed of Israel, and then, as in all things, to all the Church of God, seeing all the saints of God are the true seed of believing Abraham, the father of believers. He was an apostle, and he was the Lord’s brother, yet he mentions not these greater things, but he takes the lowly title, in which, no doubt, he felt the highest honour, and calls himself “a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.” Happy is that man who serves the Lord, whose whole life is not that of an independent master of himself, but of one who is fully submissive to the divine command. James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
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