Dear Friends,

Is the devil giving you a bad time? There is an up side to temptation. Today’s devotional will point it out. God bless you.

Because of Calvary,

John Janney

• James 1:2-4

  James 1:2-4  English Standard Version (ESV)
  Testing of Your Faith
  2 Count it all joy, my brothers,[a] when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

James 1:2-4

“I recollect, when I was young, reading an expression, — I think of Erskine’s, — in which he says that he likes a roaring devil better than a sleeping devil. It struck me then that, if I could keep the devil always asleep, it would be the best thing that could possibly happen for me; but now I am not so sure that I was right. At all events, I know this, when the old dog of hell barks very loudly, he keeps me awake; and when he howls at me, he drives me to the mercy-seat for protection; but when he goes to sleep, and lies very quiet, I am very apt to go to sleep, too…” [Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit XLII, (London: Passmore and Alabaster, 1896), p. 351-352]