Jas 1:3-4 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. (4) And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Trials - faith tested - produces endurance. Endurance is the ability to stand under a load. Consider these:
1Co 16:13 Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
Eph 6:11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.
Eph 6:13 Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.
2Th 2:15 So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught, whether by word of mouth or by letter from us.
Rom 5:1-2 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, (2) through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God.
Forget you need the grace of God every moment and you will not stand. Trials teach us that we are utterly dependent for the grace of God for everything we need - not just to serve Him and bring glory to Him but to simply live.
Peter writes:
2Pe 1:2-3 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; (3) seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.
That is grace! When exactly would we be ok without it?
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