Seeing Clearly from James 1

Trials and Wisdom

• We don’t take joy in the trial itself….
• We need a new lens to see our world….
• Wisdom is the lens we lack….
• God will give it to us!
• The trials focus the lens from the temporary to the eternal….

Wealth and Poverty Through Wisdom’s Lens….

• The poorest of the poor are rich when in the Kingdom of God (Galatians 3:26)
• The rich, when in Christ, take on the nature of Christ’s humility.
• It is wise, on the part of both, to see the fleeting nature of wealth….

Neither temptation nor trials are from God….

• God can use them….
• Perseverance brings us to the eternal (v. 12, v. 4)
• God gives us good things – wisdom understands this….