The 3 Kinds of Trials (TMF:1876)

Monday, June 20, 2022
Peace to Live By: The 3 Kinds of Trials (TMF:1876) - Daniel Litton
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       James chapter 1, re-reading verse 2 again: “Count it all joy, my brothers and sisters, when you meet trials of various kinds.” Basically, three kinds of trials can exist for us. Trials can be self-induced. That is, we deliberately put ourselves in the trial for good reasons. Trials can also be caused by an a mistake we have made. Still yet, trials can come to us without us having done anything. They are outside of any of our actions. Let’s go through these one-by-one. What is the self-induced trial? Well, a good example of this is when a person enrolls in college to obtain a degree. The person enrolls knowing there is going to be hard work involved. There are going to be assignments. There will be papers. Late nights writing and studying. Tests and final exams to be taken. Classmates to work on projects with. Group meetings. At least in some of these things, there will be trialing events. That’s okay, though. The student knew that.