Light Reflection-James 1:2-4 Persevering Faith

JOHN SHIRK – Today’s Light Reflection is from James 1, verses 2 to 4.

“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.”

Trials come in different ways and affect people in different ways. Not everyone grows more mature and wiser through their trials. Some become bitter and cynical about life.

Staying focused on God helps us to see the bigger picture of our trials. Yes, it may hurt right now, but God has our lives in His hands and is able to accomplish something good through our painful circumstances. This is not the time to give up. This is the time to press forward with God. He is at work, to refine our character. The trials we face may not be in our plans, but they can be used for God’s purposes, to purify our faith and make us a voice of hope in this generation.

This Light Reflection inspires us to let perseverance finish its work when our faith is tested in the Year to Shine.

John Shirk

john@wjtl.com