Read Your Bible: James

I have been reading James this week while I have been recovering from surgery. There are so many great truths in James. It's a short book in the bible (only 5 chapters) and is an easy read. However, to really soak up all the truth you gotta take your time. I am taking it one chapter at a time to really understand and apply the truth to my life.
Here are some great truths found in Chapter One. 

verse 2: "Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. 

verse 5: "If you don't know what you're doing, pray to the Father. He loves to help." 

verse 10: "Prosperity is as short-lived as a wild-flower, so don't ever count on it."

verse 15: "Lust gets pregnant, and has a baby: sin! Sin grows up to adulthood, and becomes a real killer." 

verse 18: "There is nothing deceitful in God, nothing two-faced, nothing fickle. He brought us to life using the true Word, showing us off as the crown of all his creatures." 

verse 22: "Don't fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other. Act on what you hear!"