How Can Joy and Tribulation Go Together?
Consider it all joy ... when you encounter different kinds of trials. Why is this so? Because once you have your faith tested, your faith will grow and this faith will produce a capability in you to endure whatever you face. James One of the things that amazes me, in the Church arena of the USA, is that many come across as thinking that escaping tribulation, trials or tests is a part of being a Christian: From where in the world does this kind of stinking thinking come? Certainly it does not come from the Bible, and that uncommon thing called common sense clearly belies such a notion. It's like the revivalist who is reported to have said, "Once I met Jesus, all my problems ceased." Well, once I met Christ, I gained a whole new batch of problems. Plus Jesus said that we are no better than He who is our "master." Didn't Jesus suffer? Then we have James telling us that once we encounter different kinds of trials, we are at a ...