Why are we exhorted to patience?

Answer

"But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, wanting [lacking] nothing
James 1: 4.

What is one evidence of this change from death to life?
By what is this cleansing from sin and fitting for God's service accomplished?
What effect does obedience to the truth have?
What, in prophecy, is symbolized by waters?
What determines whose servants we are?
At His ascension, how did the angels say Christ would come again?
Does God always see fit to grant our petitions?

Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle