Sprint or Marathon?

James 1:2-4

Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

I figured we'd start off with the book of James. In the book of James it starts off with something that I think we often forget. Even though everything in our society keeps getting more and more about instant gratification driven, our faith is not. As a matter of fact, James talks in terms of endurance.

You don't just wake up one morning and say "I think I'll run a marathon today!" and you don't wake up one day and have the faith of say...Abraham. It takes training.

And so here's the question for each of us to ask ourselves: Are we willing to put in the time it takes to have that kind of faith???

It takes prayer, reading your bible, and according to James...Trials (of MANY kinds). And so are those things that you are looking forward to in order to have faith that is "perfect and complete"???

Same time tomorrow batfriends!!!

P Biddy