Wounded Or Wise James 1:1-5 #Nightlight #RTTBROS

Wounded Or Wise James 1:1-5 #Nightlight #RTTBROS

1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. 2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. 5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. James 1:1-5

Whenever something hurts you you have a choice you can either become wounded or you can become wise.  Think of Joseph here in the Old Testament he was the favored son of his father but hated of his brothers because of that. As a result of this negative Dynamic Joseph ended up being severely mistreated by his brothers he was beaten put into a pit sold into slavery and even within Egypt he suffered at the whims of others. He had a choice he could either become wounded or wise he chose wisdom and in so doing he saved the nation that he was living in from a famine. So the wicked thing that was done to him was transformed into a life-saving Act of God.
In life there's no shortage of painful situations. Our choices are the same as Joseph's choices we can either choose to be wounded or to be wise we can allow the pain to make us bitter or make us better we can either be a victim or a victor depending on how we choose to view the pain inducing incident in our lives.
I think maybe the practical application to this concept is when we find ourselves confronted with pain is to ask different questions. For example we tend to ask why me,  which is normal to feel when pain strikes.  Instead we need to find out what is God doing in this situation.  So a better question might be God what should I do next, how can you get great Glory out of this situation?

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