In the face of trails

²My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

³Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

⁴But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing(James 2:2-4).

In the making of the complete person we must at times face issues that plague us. In doing so only makes us more complete as followers of his perfect word. The 3 scriptures above are a formula.

1. Falling into temptation

2. Knowing their is an answer

3. Allowing you to become mature

I used to struggle with these versus as a young person. As I got older, I didn't flee when it was convenient for me to do so, but to stand in the face of opposition. Instead of running away from a problem run to the solution. In God's word he teaches for us to "cast our cares upon him for he cares for us". I know this can be difficult in the face of real issues such as an illness or even losing your home, but we have to let God have his perfect work. In his model he speaks of "ye may be perfect and entire", that word "perfect" simply means mature, lacking nothing.

God is grooming us for a purpose, he created us for struggle. He's showing us in his model how we benefit and how to be of service to him.

There is an old saying "life is easy, but living is hard". We have to live on this earth as ambassadors for him. It's time we grow an become what he's calling us to do. It's time we become the change we envision.