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Introduction
We have all seen movies with Snipers in them.
Some are very far fetched on the abilities of men shooting but one thing they all have in common because it is the truth is the shooter must have extreme patience.
There are times where a sniper waits for hours and days on end.
Sometimes in extreme circumstances only gaining a few feet per day.
But in all this he knows that eventually, the proper conditions will arise to be taken advantage of.
These men do not just get set up and take a shot and that’s it.
No, they slip in undetected and scan the area.
They find the perfect spot and set up and sometimes they stalk their target until the time is right.
They are focused and ready at any time for this to happen.
But they have to remain calm and steady until they are back at base with a mission complete.
This type of patience is not something that they have naturally.
Sure, some have good patience naturally, but this type of patience is not natural.
it is trained into them.
They suffer through intense training and suffering to become the deadliest men in the world.
But this training is not just a once and done.
No, it is ongoing so they can maintain their ability to remain patient.
This is what James is telling us in this section.
He is saying “Be patient,” “wait,” “establish your hearts,” look at others who are “an example of suffering and patience,” look at those “who remained steadfast,” and finally trust in the Lord only and not yourselves.
That is why i titled this “The Power of Patience” because when we practice patience over and over again we become like those bodybuilders we have all seen.
They have muscles on muscles which translates over to us, patience on our patience.
We can endure much more when we continually train our patience like the sniper continually trains to remain focused ad ready.
This is exactly what James has been saying.
This is the beginning of the conclusion of this epistle where James continues to guide us to be slow to speak, quick to hear, and slow to anger.
Patience in practice is how we can perform all of those.
The text reads James 5:7-12
Patience for the coming of the Lord is the main theme in this section.
What this means is that we can be patient in our lives because we know Jesus is coming again.
He will come back and right every wrong that has happened.
He will fix everything that was twisted. he will correct everything that is filled with injustice.
Jesus is what we wait for and He is the one who will make everything perfect and right.
That is not us or anything this world offers nor is it anyone else in the world, it is only Jesus.
And when we fix our eyes on Him we can have the patience to make it through everything this rank and harsh world will throw at us.
This is so because…
The Power of Patience is In Our Ability to Wait (7-8)
James tells us and the original recipients that we need to wait and rest in the fact Jesus is coming.
We can have that patience when we look at life through that lens.
He uses the example of a farmer waiting on his crop to come up and wait on the rains to come.
This is a great illustration because farmers and cowboys alike know that waiting on rain can be frustrating.
What we all do know is that no amount of gripping or complaining makes it come any sooner.
We cannot make it rain no matter how much we try to.
We are not capable to do that so we wait for the rain because there is nothing else we can do.
This is what James is saying about patience.
The world throws some really tough things at us, we need to be patient because Jesus is returning.
People will do us wrong and terrorize us.
We can have patience because we know Jesus is coming and He will make things right when He arrives.
Just like the farmer who waits for the rain to grow his crop, we can wait on Jesus to correct the wrongs we have suffered.
Practicing patience gives the power of patience to wait and not return evil for evil.
It gives us the ability to wait for the Lord.
We can have this power when we establish our hearts for this coming.
Establish simply means, to become inwardly firm and committed.
We can become this way when we go to the Lord for wisdom.
He will give it generously to all who ask for it.
He will guide us because He has given us His Holy Spirit who is our guide into all truth.
God has given us all we need through the glorious Lord and savior Jesus Christ who has given us all who are His the Holy Spirit to comfort and strengthen us.
We are not left alone in this wicked and depraved world.
We have a guide who can carry us through if we rest in Him who sent Him.
We can wait faithfully and not become bitter and hate filled through trials and tests and temptation when we have committed in our inner self to be firmly set upon the Lord and His power and return.
Our joy is that return.
Paul calls it our blessed hope in Titus.
Paul also says that the Lord Jesus will reward all who have love his appearing.
When we focus on Jesus in everything in life we can make it through.
But, when we focus on His return, we can be patient and wait well because we know He is the only one who can make this world do what it is supposed to do.
The Power of patience is in our ability to wait but…
The Power of Patience Is Strength to Endure(9-11)
Patience does not only give us power to wait but to endure.
Just like what I just said, when we focus on the Lord Jesus we can be patient and wait well.
We can also not become bitter and grumblers.
The Judge is standing at the door.
This means that the return of the Lord could be at any moment.
This is the imminency of the Savior’s return.
If we are grumbling and complaining about one another we have a grudge and a complaining spirit in us.
Jesus is the judge of us all, as Paul wrote earlier in Romans “why do you pass judgment on your brother…why do you despise your brother?
For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God…each of us will give an account of himself to God…let us not pass judgment on one another any longer....” (Rom.
14:10-13).
We endure and have a steadfastness about us when we feel compelled to strike back.
We endure when we feel like the other person is wrong and insulting us.
Like a story from Charles Swindoll.
He said several years ago he was at a grocery store getting out of his vehicle and the guy next to him was very close.
He wiggled out but slightly bumped the other vehicle.
The man inside was glaring with hatred at him.
He took a cloth and buffed the “bump” and it was nothing.
It didn’t even leave a mark.
So he looked at the man and apologized but said there was not a mark on the vehicle.
With this he took his young son and headed to the store.
He said something in him said turn around.
He did in time to see the man from the other vehicle opening his door and slamming it into Swindoll’s car over and over.
Swindoll’s hackles were raised and he instantly wanted to go snap the mans neck.
He looked at him a moment and decided that it would be pointless so he turned around and walked into the store.
He endured a little foolish ignorance from a person who was caught up in the world.
Had he attacked he may have whipped the man, but what good would that have done?
None.
The, man would have still been lost and when he found out it was a pastor who did it, probably hold a grudge against the church and God for that.
Endurance of wrongs committed and insults hurled are part and parcel of the Christian walk.
David did not have his men kill Shimei when he was fleeing from Absalom and Shemei was pelting him with rocks.
David said no we will not kill him, let him curse me, “it may be that the Lord will look at the wrong done to me, and that the Lord will repay me with good for his cursing today.”
(2 Sam.
16:12).
Enduring some hardships and insults is nothing for the person who is internally committed and established in the Lord.
We see this world as lost and depraved and we do not allow it to bring us down.
Just like the prophets that James uses.
They had a hard job.
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