As we welcome another year of our life, let us thank God for His blessings and let us bless His holy name for teaching us how to be patient for teaching us endurance and perseverance and for teaching us how to remain faithful to Him. We must understand that He is the God of promise and He will remain in us, so we must also remain Him and always consider our present suffering as pure joy for this is nothing compared to the glory we will then receive in the future through Christ our Lord. we should see it as our training and that He will always sustain us in what we need. Therefore, we must really see all of our hardships as a blessing in disguise from God. Thus, in our weaknesses, He is more present and He is more involved because He will grant us the strength to endure and the strength to persevere against all odds. We must remember that His grace is indeed sufficient that His power is made perfect in our weaknesses. We should always hold onto His promise and continue to goal for heavenly things instead of worldly things. Just like Job, we must remain faithful to God no matter what. So, as soon as a new year will come, a new decade will come, we should always remember this reminder from James that we should always consider our trials and tribulations as blessings from God to prepare and to improve our patience, perseverance and faith towards Him. We are still here, alive and healthy because we hold on to the promises of Christ. 2020 was the year of trials and tribulations for all the people but we are still here, kicking and fighting. We must look back on how God remained faithful to us and to His Word that He will always be with us. Now, as the year is drawing to its end, we should look back to this whole year and to all the trials and tribulations we underwent. His promise to remain with us always is still there and we will really appreciate it better if we are put into these situations because we will cling more to God. We have to understand that God only puts us into these stages of life to teach and discipline us. Rejoicing in our suffering is really such a hard thing to do, but it is meritable. He wants us to see all the trials and tribulations as a blessing from Him because we know that through this, we are going to improve our perseverance, patience and our faith towards Him. God wants us to remain faithful to Him no matter what the circumstances. So, this is what James wants to remind us so that we will not lose our focus. He did not renounce his faith to God, but still he became closer to God because he prays a lot. His life has been so hard and normal people would really look at it as an unfair life but Job showed full patience and trust in God. He lost everything- his family, his wealth and even his good health. Despite all of what happened to him, he remained faithful and chose to continue to serve God. James used the prophet Job as an example for us to follow. Our verse today talks about how the Christians should act when it comes to facing adversaries, trials and tribulations in life. Our goals should always be heavenly and that is to remain faithful to God and to become patient in all of our adversaries. However, the goals of Christians are different. As much as possible the goal is to succeed in every way no matter what it costs and no matter who gets hurt. The goal of worldliness is to avoid suffering. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.” – James 5:11 You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. “As you know, we count as blessed those who have persevered. Perseverance in Tribulations – James 5:11
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