{"id":13796,"date":"2022-06-14T16:03:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T20:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/?p=13796"},"modified":"2022-06-14T16:03:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T20:03:17","slug":"james-12-is-it-desirable-to-avoid-trials-and-temptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/james-12-is-it-desirable-to-avoid-trials-and-temptation\/","title":{"rendered":"James 1:2 &#8211; Is it desirable to avoid trials and temptation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Problem:<\/strong> Jesus instructed His disciples to pray, \u201cdo not lead us into temptation\u201d (Matt. 6:13). But James says here, \u201ccount it all joy when you fall into various trials.\u201d<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Solution:<\/strong> The two situations are different, as indicated by several factors. First, James is speaking of trials we \u201cfall into,\u201d and Jesus is referring to things we should not want to be \u201cled into.\u201d Second, James is speaking of trials, and Jesus is speaking about temptations. It is not a sin to fall into trials, but sin does result from being led into temptations. Finally, while the believer should not masochistically seek trials, neither should he try to avoid them at all cost. God can work in and through them to perfect our lives (cf. Job 23:10; Heb. 12:11; James 1:3\u20134). (See comments on Matt. 6:13.)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&#8220;My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; (James 1:2)&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: Jesus instructed His disciples to pray, \u201cdo not lead us into temptation\u201d (Matt. 6:13). But James says here, \u201ccount it all joy when you fall into various trials.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}