James has been focused on how a Christian should address trials and that they are a way to expose our degree of spiritual maturity.  But at this point in the letter, James needs to make an important distinction between these external tests and inward tests or temptations that are not the result of God’s design (and spoiler alert, it's not the devil after you either).  They are natural products of our sinful nature.  And like external tests, we face them best when we understand them with Godly wisdom and respond to them according to that wisdom.

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