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Finding Joy in Trials: A Lesson from James
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Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
James says have joy in the trial, and that doesn’t make sense to us, does it? But if you think about somebody who wants to be able to run marathons. How do they achieve that goal? Are they, on their first day of training, going to run 26 miles? Well, no, obviously not. They need to prepare for it. They need to put their body through the trial of repeatedly running farther and farther and eventually they’ll be able to run 26 miles, we hope.
