James 5:7-11: Patience – Part I
Thursday, October 27, 2022
We grind our teeth, we set our jaw, we bull our way through, we suffer in silence. These are often the techniques we use when we attempt to live patiently; yet these are not what James means when he asks that we exercise patience. He refers to God’s servant Job and we may have spent time reading this story and still not have found the humility and gentleness necessary for true patience.
To be
ar wrongs patiently is an act of spiritual mercy. (CCC 2447).
Love is patient. (1 Corinthians 13:4)
Humility, patience, and gentleness accompany one another when brothers and sisters live in Christ.(Ephesians 4:2)
Patience is one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit. (Galatians 5:22-23)
Jesus teaches us about patience in his Sermon on the Mount when he says that the Father will give to him or her who prays in the following way whatever he or she needs: Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. (Matthew 7:7-8)
Tomorrow, patience as lived by Jesus.
CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. 2nd ed. Vatican: Libreria Editice Vaticana. Print.
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