Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

James starts his book off with the phrase, Count it all joys, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds.

James intentionally used the word when and not if.

In today's episode, we're going to begin a sermon series from the archives from the book of James.

In it, Paul teaches why we suffer and why we hate it.

If you're interested in hearing more sermons from Paul, visit paultrip.com slash sermons. Here's Paul from James

One. If you this evening could ask one one question of the Lord, right here, right now,

what would you ask?

If there's a riddle of your own faith, your walk with God, that you would like to present before your Redeemer, what is that?

Maybe you don't understand why your life has had so much difficulty in it,

and you thought that the life of a believer was a life of blessing. Or perhaps you think that

there's these moments in life where you just lack wisdom. And you know that your Lord is the ultimate source of wisdom,

and you don't understand why you have these moments where you lack wisdom. Or maybe you recognize

that there's way too much anger in your life, that you experience way too much conflict in you,

and you don't understand why.

Or maybe you know that God's sovereign, yet you know that you're supposed to plan and

you struggle with that balance between what's your responsibility and what you can entrust to God.

Or maybe you really struggle with getting the best out of God's word. You love the

preaching of God's word, but when you have the Bible yourself and the privacy of your own

devotions, it just doesn't seem like the word of God speaks to you. Or maybe there are

moments where you feel like the most insignificant, unrecognized

member of the body of Christ and you feel like you could slip in and slip out, no one would

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