Trials come to reveal our hearts dependencies and deepest desires. This is why God sends them. We need to know if we are trusting in anything other than Jesus for love, significance, meaning, for all that we need. God also uses trials to develop our character and our faith in Him. It is when we persevere under trials that we develop character and receive the crown of life.

James deals with relationships between rich and poor in the church, and what he is really dealing with is attitudes. Attitudes that cause discrimination without love in the church. Attitudes that separate and divide people and society. Christians are required to judge, to discriminate with love, but the prejudices that mark society should never mark the church.

When you ask God for something, in accord with His Word, you should not doubt. If your belief wavers you will not receive. God gives His wisdom generously for all who ask Him for it. So, don't waver, believe and receive.

James says that we can be mature, complete, lacking nothing, this sounds like real happiness. So how does this happiness come? James tells us through trials, which seems counterintuitive. Trials met with joy, only a joy that a deep and growing relationship with Jesus Christ brings, produce perseverance and this is what will lead us into being mature, complete, and lacking nothing.