Keeping it Real 1: Why Trials are the Greatest Thing of All - James 1:1-18

I know a woman who got really sick and thought it was an issue with her stomach. It got so bad she had to go to the hospital. It turned out to be nothing serious and dissipated shortly after going to the hospital, but not before the doctors had taken all kinds of images. They found that everything was dissipating, but they said, "we see a couple spots on your lungs that you really should get checked out". They sent her home because her other symptoms just vanished, which in fact turned out to be lung cancer in its early stages which they were able to catch and treat. I think we really are probably consistently poor at figuring out the trials and negative circumstances in our lives. We see with such limited vision. but God is bigger. I want to talk today about why trials are the greatest thing of all, out of James. We will walk through the book of James in coming weeks and will call this series "keeping it real". Preacher: Bill Dyck Extra reading: Deuteronomy 8:1-10