Consider Joy Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Consider Joy ------------- Date: 11/22/1998 Keywords: "joy" "resist" "temptation" "trial" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: James 1:2-4* 2. Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials; 3. knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4. And let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. Questions 1. What is the Christian to do with trials?   2. What are some trials in your life?   3. How is Internet porn a trial?   4. How could resisting temptation (a trial) result in you becoming a more complete human being?   Practical Help While we're going through them, temptations or trials can be overwhelming, just like marathons are struggles when we're out of shape. But with every mile that we run comes stamina and endurance. Considering something to be joy is not the same as pretending something is better than it is. In the case of temptation, joy comes when we anticipate how resisting it will build us up. Tempted by web porn? Consider how resisting it will help make you a man or woman of excellence. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 1998 by eXXit *"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, © Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission."