trials, he writes, have a purpose. They test our faith. They reveal what we worship, what we trust, what we love. From James’s perspective, this is evidence of God’s fatherly care. It is essential to our spiritual welfare. It would be a tragedy to go through life with a nominal faith we think is genuine but isn’t. God’s love is behind the trials that reveal the true condition of our faith. His desire is that we become “mature and complete, not lacking anything.” In other words, when our faith is refined so that we learn to trust God in all things, we will be satisfied in him above all else. We
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