God tests you in order that He might produce something in your life and that’s patience. Now how does God produce patience? Well, let’s look at this. “Let patience have a perfect work that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking nothing.” Now, it was patience that makes us a full-grown Christian. And the very interesting thing is patience is the fruit of the Holy Spirit. You’ll never be patient by trying. And neither does the Holy Spirit place it on a silver platter. Patience comes through suffering and testing. You’ll never be a “perfect”—now that means “a complete; of full maturation—as a Christian, and you can’t be that without patience.
Get ready to fight the good fight against legalism in Galatians. When this letter was written, it defended the gospel of Christ from people who wanted to reduce it to rules. Not surprising, Galatians has provided the backbone for several great spiritual revivals around the world. Freedom, we learn, is a serious fight. Allow grace to revolutionize your own life through these seven lessons from Dr. J. Vernon McGee.