James 5:9– Don’t grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. The judge is standing at the door.
Counting trials as pure joy(James 1:2) cannot be done if we grumble against one another. James keeps letting us know how to have the chairein throughout the book he wrote. If we don’t grumble which is keeping our tongue as James tells us in the third chapter of his book, it helps us in having joy. With trials, often it is with people who we allow to steal our joy and we grumble against them. The people may make up an institution like they did in James day be it the Roman government or the Jewish religious order that can cause us to be unjoyful or miserable. If we follow James teaching we can learn to count trials as pure joy and if someone is in the midst of a trial that God has chosen to let bypass us we can encourage the follow believe with words that build one up and give them joy.
Summer of Esther 