To waste a trial means I will not engage.

I get passive, not active.

I disengage.

I can't wait till it's over.

As if the goal of the trial is to endure it, like survive it.

The goal of the trial is not to survive it, but to mature in it.

That's why you celebrate it. You welcome it because you actually know why

God did it. He's told you why it did it. To refine it. Yeah, and it's a good God doing a good thing

through a hard place.

Harry, thanks for sitting down. Obviously, I'm so grateful for you, your impact example to me,

but also just the ability. We have the partner together in ministry together at Stonebridge Bible Church. I wanted to talk to you about trials. There's a keystone passage that you could

say on trials in James chapter one versus two through four.

It says, consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance and let endurance have its perfect result so that you may be perfect and complete lacking in nothing.

You know, a trial could be relative in many respects. It could be I broke my arm.

I don't like that. It could be my wife just died of cancer. So there's a range there. But the trials,

it says in James, we're to consider those all joy, which sounds extreme and difficult to maybe

someone that's walking through a trial. But Harry, you've preached through James

many times. I want to just talk to you about this subject. How do we approach trials? We see the

prescription here in James, but how do we actually do that as believers? What's the purpose of a trial

in a Christian's life? So the purpose of a trial is told here in this passage. It basically says it's a test,

the testing of your faith. Now the test involves validating genuineness and exposing weakness,

because that's what tests do. If I'm true, the test validates that I'm true. It's gold

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