Consider it all joy!
Jam 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, Jam 1:3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. Jam 1:4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. Trials. I feel I have had my fair share of them lately. We all do at some point in our lives. Health issues, work pressure, trouble with friends, financial problems, failures, sin struggles .. the list goes on and on. Sometimes we rush into things causing our own sort of mayhem and chaos to deal with. Other times, trials just seem to encompass us from all directions. They blow in from seemingly nowhere. I was reading in John MacArthur's commentary. A trial becomes a temptation when we chose to react to a trial with a wrong human response. It changed my outlook on the struggles I am going through. How can I glorify God in this right now? What is the response He is looking for in me at this moment? Is this a trial God