Faith and Endurance
Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For
you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for
when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.
If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for
asking. But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with
divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind. Such people
should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Their loyalty is divided between God and the
world, and they are unstable in everything they do.
Believers who are poor have something to boast about, for God has honored them. And those who
are rich should boast that God has humbled them. They will fade away like a little flower in the field.
The hot sun rises and the grass withers; the little flower droops and falls, and its beauty fades away.
In the same way, the rich will fade away with all of their achievements.
God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation. Afterward they will receive the crown
of life that God has promised to those who love him. And remember, when you are being tempted, do
not say, “God is tempting me.” God is never tempted to do wrong, and he never tempts anyone else.
Temptation comes from our own desires, which entice us and drag us away. These desires give birth
to sinful actions. And when sin is allowed to grow, it gives birth to death.
So don't be misled, my dear brothers and sisters. Whatever is good and perfect comes down to us
from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens. He never changes or casts a shifting s
hadow. He chose to give birth to us by giving us his true word. And we, out of all creation, became his
prized possession.
James 1:2-18
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