In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, Wisdom for the trials of life.

One of the most commonly asked questions is,

why is it that God allows his children to go through such difficult, trying, painful times in life? It's very obvious that he does, so he can't be denied, and since he's all powerful and he allows it to happen there must be

some purpose for it because no one escapes it.

Whether a person is a believer or not a believer, a person is a Christian or non-Christian, all of us go through trials in life.

But let's just think, think for a moment about those who have trusted Jesus Christ as their

Savior, try to follow Him, and yet they go through the most difficult kinds of trials.

What in the world has got up to?

Is there a purpose for it or is this just part of life or what is it?

Well once you and I begin to understand what the real purpose is, what God is up to, why he allows these things to happen in our life, we can live through most anything. fact anything and everything once we understand the principles

and that's what I want to deal with in this message and I'm going to simply talk about

Wisdom for the trials of life and I want want you to turn, if you will, to James

chapter one. In the first chapter of James, I want us to read part of this chapter

because he deals with this very issue of trials.

Now the apostle Paul certainly had his trials,

Jesus had his, in fact every servant of God in the scripture had theirs.

And the truth is we all do and we all will and there is no escape and somebody says

well will these trials ever cease well trials will never cease maybe this

trial will cease and this trial will cease but

trials themselves will never see if there is no escape and so the issue is not

how do I escape trials in my life, but how do I learn to respond to them in a way that makes

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