Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

Patience, James says, is absolutely necessary if you're going to experience anything of

God's goodness in your life.

He does not work quickly.

He aims to produce pearls in you but pearls take time and time takes patience. Thanks for Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer.

As always, I'm your host Molly Vittevich.

You know one thing I constantly struggle with?

Being patient. These days it seems like the culture almost wants us to be impatient.

You can buy almost anything at the click of a button and it'll show up to your door in no time.

In a world with so much excess, one of the things that we don't often have enough of is patience.

In today's teaching from James 5, Pastor J.D. explains what patience is, why it's necessary, and how we can develop

it.

If you miss any of the teaching this week, or if you'd like to hear it again or share it with someone else you can

find every broadcast at J.D.grier.com. But right now grab your Bible and let's join

Pastor J.D. in the book of James.

James, chapter 5. I remember being fascinated as a fourth grader

what I learned from my teacher, Mrs Kibler,

about how a pearl is formed.

Basically, an irritating little grain of sand

gets lodged inside of an oyster shell,

and no matter what it tries,

the poor little oyster can't get rid of it.

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