May 9, 2007

• Striving for Perfection…..

   

  James 1:2-4

  2 Dear brothers and sisters,* when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy.

  3 For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow.

  4 So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.
  

  Easier read than accomplished though!!

   

  Elisabeth Elliot’s take on Titus 2:3-5:

  “It would help younger women to know there are a few listening ears when they don’t know what to do with an uncommunicative husband, a 25-pound turkey, or a two-year-old’s tantrum.

  It is doubtful that the Apostle Paul had in mind Bible classes or seminars or books when he spoke of teaching younger women. He meant the simple things, the everyday example, the willingness to take time from one’s own concerns to pray with the anxious mother, to walk with her the way of the cross–with its tremendous demands of patience, selflessness, lovingkindness–and to show her, in the ordinariness of Monday through Saturday, how to keep a quiet heart.

  These lessons will come perhaps most convincingly through rocking a baby, doing some mending, cooking a supper, or cleaning a refrigerator. Through such an example, one young woman–single or married, Christian or not–may glimpse the mystery of charity and the glory of womanhood.”

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