Outline
- v1
- Greeting
- v2-3
- Have joy and faith in temptations and trial
- v3-4
- Let patience perfect you
- v5
- Ask God for wisdom
- v6-8
- Have faith, don't go back and forth
- v9-11
- Rich people fade away
- v12-16
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation...
(v12a)- v17-18
- God gives every good gift
- v19-20
- Be slow to wrath
- v21-25
- Be doers of the word, not only hearers of it
- v26
- Vain religion
- v27
- Pure religion
Key v12
Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
When we have a hard time of trials and temptations, we should have patience and faith to endure it. We can even rejoice in that (v2), because that will be very good for us, and we will be happy afterwards.
Application
v19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Sometimes I am tempted to respond angrily to a difficult situation. When I feel like saying something, but I think that I shouldn't, I'll just pray for it specifically and trust God to take care of it.
E-Mail This
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment
You can use some HTML tags, such as <b>, <i>, <a>.
Comment Approval Policy
It costs money to create and maintain findmercy.com . The purpose of this web site is for serving the Lord. Approved comments will be hosted on this web site, and available for all the world to see.
For that reason, I would appreciate it if you would please try to keep your comments generally constructive, and in line with the purpose of this site.
If you would like to criticize something about findmercy.com, please email me personally instead.
Comments: