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The testing of your faith     "Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance" (James 1:2-3).     How do we react when trials come?  How do we react, especially when the trials are not one or two, but many?  Isn’t it so hard and painful that we aren’t only discouraged, but even in despair?  But the Bible James 1:2 says “Consider it all joy”.  How is this possible?  How can we consider it all joy when we encounter various trials?   The reason we should consider it all joy when we are subjected to various trials is because the testing of our faith produces endurance (Jam. 1:3).  And when we are patience to the end, we will be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing (v. 4).  In fact, when we are faced with various trials, we sometimes realize our shortcomings.  For example, when we face trials we realize th...