James calls his hearers to endure suffering with patience through establishing their hearts, standing firm on the Rock and drinking from the Fountain of Living Water.
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"My hope lives, not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died. My trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, Christ is my righteousness. My faith does not rest on what I am or will be or feel or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done!" CH Spurgeon
A section from Pilgrim’s Progress, Puritan preacher and writer John Bunyan describes the magnificent mirror that the Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains showed to Christian and Mercy: Now the glass…