Jas 1:1-3  "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings.  Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness." 

Dispersed, Absolute Love has shoved them out of the nest of Israel so that they can grow in faith, and so that faith can be established and grow around the world and that faith shall grow the kingdom of God throughout the earth. 


Hab 2:14  For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea."

Mat 24:13,14  "But the one who endures to the end will be saved.  And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come." 

 

Yet it does not come without prayer and steadfastness, it doesn't happen in a day, a few years, a couple of centuries. 


Mat 6:9,10  "Pray then like this: "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven."

It is not as though Absolute Love is teasing us. Have we lost faith? Is it still a joy to meet the testings and trials? 

Luk 18:8  "I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?"

Jas 1:4  "And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing."

Be still. Let your patience and steadfastness have its full effect. You are not complete or perfected yet! Let the Absolute Love of God have the full effect He wants to build into you!


 Hab 2:18-20  "What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols! Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake; to a silent stone, Arise! Can this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it.  But the LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him." 


Hab 3:17-19  "Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls,  yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. GOD, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer's; he makes me tread on my high places. To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments."

Sing for Joy! 


Psa 67  "To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song. May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Selah  that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations. Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you! Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Selah.  Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you! The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, shall bless us. God shall bless us; let all the ends of the earth fear him!"