Instead of complaining we have to be patient with each other

The test should produce patience with the rest. The apostle James implies that we do not have to complain to each other, but try to patiently restore each other.

I believe that in the congregations that patience of the brothers with one another is needed. For there to be harmony in a church it is so important that we forgive each other, that we suffer grievances, that we take a long-term view of those troublesome people who need someone to guide them, to tolerate them, to be patient with them when They do things that are offensive to other brothers, that we have patience for those who come to faith with a number of erroneous ideas and character defects and that we receive them little by little so that they can get to where they have to go.

Or also when people sin or offend in some way, or have a spiritual downfall that we can also tolerate them and bring them little by little to a higher level of spiritual growth. I am thinking, for example, of what another passage from the apostle Paul says where he says that: "My brothers, if anyone is caught in any fault, you who are spiritual, restore him with a spirit of meekness looking at yourself, lest you also fall."

In other words, we have to be patient. Instead of complaining about those people who fall we should simply restore them with patience, with love, with meekness, leading them through that restoration process. Paul also speaks in another passage that Pastors and teachers need to be patient with people, not quarrelsome or confrontational or impatient, and able to lead people little by little through the process of sanctification.

In the pastorate you have to be patient. In married life there has to be patience as our spouse grows up or when we offend each other. In parenthood you have to be patient with each other to be good parents to your children. That is to say, in all these circumstances, when it comes to social relationships and relationships with others, it is important to exercise this character of patience. In communities there can be no harmony if there is no patience among the people who make up that community.

So we saw that the apostle James in the previous verses speaks of patience regarding the Second Coming, now another reason is this idea that we have to be patient with each other. Instead of complaining and living continually bothering ourselves with the mistakes even with ourselves that we also make, we must be patient and take that long-term vision that is the same vision that God takes for us, regarding our sanctification process. God bless you and we will continue later.