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Devotional. Hey, what's up? Great to hang with you on the Daily Drive for a few minutes today.

My name is Mike. And yesterday we kicked off a journey through the little book in the back of the

Bible written by a guy named James.

Now, James was the brother of Jesus, and after years of being an unbeliever, he finally puts his faith in his resurrected sibling and becomes a leader in the early church.

And his letter is full of hope and challenge and practicality as he encourages us to live an authentic faith.

Now, his original readers were Jewish Jesus followers, who had been scattered all around the

known world most of the Roman Empire because of persecution. And one of the main reasons James

writes this letter was to tell them and to tell us to hang in there through hard things,

to persevere. We made it through the first few verses yesterday, but let's use them again as an

on-ramp for our verses today. He writes, Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind

come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy, For you know that when your faith is tested,

your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow. For when your endurance is fully developed,

you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing. Consider it pure joy. God's doing some good

stuff in you, some priceless stuff, some character stuff on the inside of you.

You know if I ask you how many of you started your spiritual journey and you came to a point

in your life where you humble yourself and became a follower of Jesus because some trials

came into your life? My guess is that most would say things like, yep, absolutely, man,

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