It's one thing to read Scripture as kind of a background to our lives about things we believe to be true. It is quite another to put our face in the mirror of Scripture every day and in every new situation we face to be sure we are thinking and acting the way God wants to enable us to do.
The beginning verses of James pose a real challenge to us when life isn't all going the way we wanted or expected it to go. Much of Scripture is paradoxical to our natural way of thinking and responding to life. That's why we need to be looking into it all the time. We are sinners (mistake-makers) by nature, but God has given us a new nature, and a handbook by which to see ourselves and receive guidance in the ways we should be allowing this new nature to operate through us.
So, whatever feels like a trial to you right now, why not get happy about how it can be an experience that produces growth in faith and endurance in you?!?!?!?! Even thank God for it!!!!!!!!
James 1 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
1 James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
To the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad: Greetings.
2 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
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