When
you go through challenges in life, remember James' words, our God loves
to help. So when you don't know what to do... pray and never doubt His
amazing love for you!
Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when
tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under
pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true
colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.
If you don’t know what you’re doing, pray to the Father. He loves to
help. You’ll get his help, and won’t be condescended to when you ask for
it. Ask boldly, believingly, without a second thought. People who
“worry their prayers” are like wind-whipped waves. Don’t think you’re
going to get anything from the Master that way, adrift at sea, keeping
all your options open.
Anyone who meets a testing challenge
head-on and manages to stick it out is mighty fortunate. For such
persons loyally in love with God, the reward is life and more life.
Don’t let anyone under pressure to give in to evil say, “God is trying
to trip me up.” God is impervious to evil, and puts evil in no one’s
way. The temptation to give in to evil comes from us and only us. We
have no one to blame but the leering, seducing flare-up of our own lust.
Lust gets pregnant, and has a baby: sin! Sin grows up to adulthood, and
becomes a real killer.
So, my very dear friends, don’t get
thrown off course. Every desirable and beneficial gift comes out of
heaven. The gifts are rivers of light cascading down from the Father of
Light. There is nothing deceitful in God, nothing two-faced, nothing
fickle. He brought us to life using the true Word, showing us off as the
crown of all his creatures.
(James 1:2-8, 12-18 MSG)
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