James 1:2-4 practically demands that we allow the trying of our faith to run its course! Wow! Our emotional responses that cry for escape negate the principles of getting to maturity or perfection as the scripture puts it.

We must cultivate a profound sense of the divine holiness and of the wrath of God against sin, “for our God is a consuming fire.”

We ought to fear lest we should offend the Lord even while we are serving him; fear lest the sacrifice should be a blemished one, and so be rejected at the altar.