Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—James 5:7-12
by: Susan Bond.
In this passage the farmer is waiting for a certain kind of crop-valuable. I wonder if our patience with each other and with ourselves would increase if we picture ourselves as developing fruit trees or pea plants (choose your fruit).
Presently, my own patience level is growing (or so I think) as I'm memorizing the first verse that our General Conference President George Cruzan suggests: "Christ is all and is in all" (Colossians 3:11b). He who called creation into being in the first place also initiated the whole maturing process (John 1:3). Who am I to judge just where in this process my brother is supposed to be?