The Perspective of Patience: James 5:7-12
Welcome to Timeless Truth with Pastor Jim Thomas. In this episode, we continue our study with James 5:7-12.
“The waiting is the hardest part.”
Tom Petty
“Our adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry, and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in muchness and manyness, he will rest satisfied.”
Richard Foster, The Celebration of Discipline
“If there is one thing which should be quite plain to those who accept the revelation of God in Nature and the Bible, it is that He is never in a hurry.”
J. B. Phillips, Your God Is Too Small
“With the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.”
2 Peter 3:8
“James’s eschatology is pastoral—he gives his readers hope not in a vague future, but in a certain one.”
Douglas Moo
“Patience is not passivity—it’s a stubborn refusal to panic in the waiting room of God.”
Alec Motyer
“If you live in the light of Christ’s return each day of your life, it does wonders for your perspective.”
Chuck Swindoll, Hope Beyond the Culture
“One of the marks of a living evangelical faith is that we reckon seriously, earnestly, and joyfully with the personal, visible return of the God-man Jesus Christ.”
John Piper
“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next… Aim at heaven and you will get earth ‘thrown in’: aim at earth and you will get neither.”
C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
