Tested And Triumphant

James 1:2-3  

"My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall 

into divers temptations; Knowing this, 

that the  trying of your faith 

worketh patience." 

    James never suggested to his readers that Christianity would be an easy way.  We must fully understand the meaning of the word Temptations, if we are to see the very essence of the Christian life. Temptation, is trial or testing directed towards an end, and the end is that he who is tested should emerge stronger and purer from the testing. 

    All kinds of experiences will come to us. There will be the test of the sorrows and the disappointments which seek to take our faith away. There will be the test of the seductions which seek to lure us from the right way. There will be the tests of the dangers, the sacrifices, the unpopularity which the Christian way must so often involve. But they are not meant to make us fall; they are meant to make us soar.  

    My Friends, Temptations, are not meant to defeat us; they are meant to be defeated. They are not meant to make us weaker; they are meant to make us stronger. Therefore we should not moan about them; we should rejoice in them. The Christian is like the athlete. The heavier the course of training he undergoes, the more he is glad, because he knows that it is fitting him all the better for victorious effort.  A rough step for every hard thing is another step on the upward way, to "The Crown Of Life." 

Amen!

Reading: James 1-1-18

Ref: HGSB

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry