MEDITATION
James 1:1-15
Don't count it a strange experience please
1. The reality v2.
You will at one time or the other experience divers (not just one) situations that will tend to shake your faith John 16:33.
2. The righteousness v2,12.
This is different from temptations to sin. Believers are not to fall into temptations but we will fall into trials. We are not to endure temptations but to resist them; we are to endure trials. No sinner will experience a trial of faith because they don't have saving faith.
3. The rationale v3.
Trials of faith are permitted by God to try, test, toughen and make your faith triumphant in troublous times.
4. The roughness v8.
It is a rough experience that will expose your hypocrisy and unfaithfulness, if you don't have genuine faith, thereby propelling you to seek for the real experience.
5. The radiance v2.
Radiate the joy of the Lord without despondency because trials show that God is interested in pulling you out of the register of hypocrites and ordinary Christians.
6. The rightness
Every believer will experience it because there is no success without scrutiny, triumph without test, divine promotion without definite purification.
7. The result
Perfection of grace and character needed to fully enjoy and be used of God to the fullest.
8. The rule v4.
You must endure to the end if you want to enjoy the full blessings and benefits.
9. The resource vv5-7.
Always ask for wisdom and grace to sail through with joy.
10. The reward v12.
Eternal reward, including the crown of life, will be given to the triumphant.
Thank you God because trial of faith will not crush me and it is for my good🙏
Holy Spirit, ever give me joy of the Lord to radiate His glory whenever I am tried🙏
I hereby ask for grace and strength to always overcome all my trials and endure to the end🙏
Lord, I ask for the joy of the Lord, which the world cannot take away, for those passing through trials of faith in the Church🙏
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