Daily Devotional
Profiting From Trials
Text: James 1:3
“Knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.”
Message
In order to achieve a goal or accomplish something, you must take proactive steps and make an effort to work towards it. This is because success often requires initiative and effort on your part. Whether it’s a personal goal or any other endeavor, actively moving towards it is usually a key factor in achieving it.
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
Unless your experience is unique, hard work and perseverance most often lead to success.
If we’re scared of hard work, we likely will have a harder time reaching success. It is essentially, important to take necessary action and not just wait for things to happen on their own.
James 1:2-8 put it this way, “My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.”
May you have resounding success in every area that you are being tested and waiting patiently for God’s intervention.
Amen.