Day 11 - James 5:1-12

5 Look here, you rich people: Weep and groan with anguish because of all the terrible troubles ahead of you. 2 Your wealth is rotting away, and your fine clothes are moth-eaten rags. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded. The very wealth you were counting on will eat away your flesh like fire. This corroded treasure you have hoarded will testify against you on the day of judgment. 4 For listen! Hear the cries of the field workers whom you have cheated of their pay. The cries of those who harvest your fields have reached the ears of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

5 You have spent your years on earth in luxury, satisfying your every desire. You have fattened yourselves for the day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and killed innocent people, who do not resist you.

7 Dear brothers and sisters, be patient as you wait for the Lord’s return. Consider the farmers who patiently wait for the rains in the fall and in the spring. They eagerly look for the valuable harvest to ripen. 8 You, too, must be patient. Take courage, for the coming of the Lord is near.

9 Don’t grumble about each other, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. For look—the Judge is standing at the door!

10 For examples of patience in suffering, dear brothers and sisters, look at the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. 11 We give great honor to those who endure under suffering. For instance, you know about Job, a man of great endurance. You can see how the Lord was kind to him at the end, for the Lord is full of tenderness and mercy.

12 But most of all, my brothers and sisters, never take an oath, by heaven or earth or anything else. Just say a simple yes or no, so that you will not sin and be condemned.


Tori's Comments:

"Don't grumble about each other" I think this goes along with nit-picking. We seem to forget how much God overlooks in us, and just judge each over from our self-built pedestals.

Verse 12 is another thing I have recently been struggling with. I realize just how much I want people to value my word, and I also realize it is far from that ideal.

Terrie's Comments:

Be patient as we wait for the Lords return.  I have said it many times, our time here on earth is so short.  We only have a possible 120 years.  In light of eternity that is just a small drop... in the word time is compared with eternity at one point and if we use that scale and we actually live to be 120 years old then we really only have the equivalent of 3.5 hours tops on God's clock here on earth.  What are we doing with it?... or perhaps the question we should ask is what am I letting God do with it?

If we were all honest with ourselves we are as patient many days as the Israelite's were...

Lord help us to keep an eternal perspective!

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"Your Plan B Can Become God's Plan A | Don Moen Devotionals"

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