In his letter, James is writing to Jewish people who are recent Christian converts who are facing persecution and poverty from other Jewish people due to their recent Christian conversion. James writes them to encourage them. In the beginning of his letter, he immediately tells them that they are going to face trials but to count it as joy. This applies to us today as we are going to face trials and they are going to be unexpected and unpredictable in life. When trials come though, we must count it all joy. It doesn’t mean we’re happy, but it means we are going to trust God through it all despite the circumstances we are facing because He is still in control. It’s in our trials that He makes us strong. Listen to this sermon about facing trials in life in the first part of our In The Word series walking through the book of James.

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