“Let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.” — James 1:4 (ESV)
There’s a becoming happening in you right now.
The trial isn’t doing what you think. It feels like loss. It feels like being broken. But James says the testing of your faith is producing something — steadfastness. The kind of root system that holds a tree when the wind comes.
You don’t grow in clear weather. You take shape under pressure.
The promise here is staggering. Perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. Not someday in heaven. Now. The fire is making something whole in you that comfort never could.
So the question isn’t how do I get out of this trial? The question is what is God making of me in it?
Today: Sit with the trial you named yesterday. Ask one question — God, what are You growing in me? Don’t rush the answer.