Saturday, November 12, 2005

I love my quiet time

I came back from community penetration today and decided to satisfy the hunger for God's words today. I flipped to James and read the 5 chapters of it again and found this speaking to me. James 5:7 (NKJ), which teaches us to be patient in our sufferings as we persevere in our relationship wih God. "Therefore, be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain." So many a time, we carelessly rush through things and are quick to complain, that we do not restrain ourselves in the virtue of patience. In this time where words like quick, instant, fast and convenience dominate our lives so pervasively, we lose that patience in us, so much that we are not willingly patient to await in Him and for His second coming. We ask ourselves in this waiting, are we able to endure pain, bear difficulty, and put up with annoyance with calmness? are we tolerant and understanding constantly?
Being not hasty and impulsive, are we capable of calmly awaiting that outcome/result ?

I drifted on to Hebrews and stopped at Hebrews 7. "The King of Righteousness"-Melchizedek, who is more fully exploited in the book of Hebrews, is a type of Christ in His priestly ministry. Christ must be understood as an antitype of Melchizedek because the silence concerning his ancestry, priestly pedigree, birth and death illustrates the eternal and changeless priesethood of Christ. For God testifies," You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek". I love how the story of Melchizedek had been so deployed upon the divine page in isolated glory and splendor.

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