James is saying that whenever trouble comes your way, let it be an opportunity for growth and joy. That setback can help your endurance to be more fully developed, and then you will be strong in character and ready to face almost anything in the future. God may be calling you to a higher level of maturity and spirituality for your relationship to move to deeper intimacy. The third way to keep our joy is to pray . Hopefully, the most important relationship to you is with God.
Any relationship involves an investment in time.
They literally go together. Joy in relationships and life are very hard to find some days. We're almost programmed by advertisers to be dissatisfied with everything so we will want to buy something new to fix our frustration. Finding God's joy is the one great antidote. In other words no matter how bad our past was, no matter how troublesome our future may be, we have the spirit of God within us and that is a wellspring of joy for us this spring, and for the days ahead.