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Hello, my name is Steve Stroop and I want to welcome you to Daily Drive. You know, there's a very

interesting scripture in James 1, 2, through 4.

It says there, consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various temptations,

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance, and let endurance have its perfect result

that you might be perfect and complete lacking in nothing.

Now here's a good definition of temptation.

Temptation is when we are being enticed to step outside of God's will.

This is interesting.

Why should I count it joy when I'm being enticed to step outside of God's will?

You would think that would be a negative thing.

And yet the scripture says that we can count a joy when that trial or that temptation comes our way.

And I think there's several reasons that are obvious and are explained in the Bible.

First of all, that when we are tested, it produces a product endurance that makes us stronger.

If you never lifted anything, what would happen to your muscles?

Well, your legs or your arms or whatever muscle that you weren't using, it would atrophy.

In other words, it wouldn't strengthen.

By the same measure, if you exercise, your muscles become stronger. When I was in high school,

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