We have been noticing how James is giving good counsel for how to have faith during trials and hardships. James has been telling us that God is at work in our trials. James began this chapter telling us that your faith is being tested to produce steadfastness so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing. Trials are exposing things in us about our faith. It is showing us what desires are in us that are giving birth to sin. Trials are showing us the moral filth and evil overflow that is in us that needs to be rooted out the by word implanted in our hearts. There is exposure that is happening to us. God is revealing our character. God is revealing our weaknesses and shortcomings. God is showing us who we are and what needs to change. This is where James goes with his teaching at the end of chapter 1. Look at James 1:22…
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