[Manna - November 23]
Ye have need of patience, [cheerful endurance, constancy] that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. Hebrews 10:36
HERE we see that it is not merely to do the will
of God that is the test, but that after having attained
to that point, that mark of character in our hearts,
in our wills (if only partially in the flesh) we should,
by patient endurance, establish God's righteous will
as the law of our hearts, the rule of life under all circumstances
and conditions.
Then, and not until then,
will we be in the heart condition of fitness for the
Kingdom.
The Apostle James says, "The trying of
your faith worketh patience [patient endurance "];
that is to say, if our faith stand the trial it will work
this character of patient endurance.
Of course, on
the other hand, if we do not attain to patient endurance,
it will mean that our faith has not stood the
test satisfactorily, that we are not fit for the Kingdom. Z. '01-117 R2792:1