A millionaire decides to throw a massive party for his fiftieth birthday. During the party he grabs the mic and he announces to his guests that down in the garden of his mansion he has a swimming pool with two great white sharks in it. “The man who dares to swim across that pool gets 1 MILLION DOLLARS.”
No one enters the pool until suddenly, there is a great splash and a man swimming as hard as he can. The fins come out of the water and the jaws are snapping and yet this guy just keeps on going. The sharks are gaining on him but somehow this guy reaches the end and gets out of the pool, wet and soaked.
The millionaire grabs the mic and says, “I am a man of my word, so would you like that money in cash, check, bonds? For you are the bravest man I have ever seen. So, sir, what will it be?”
The guy says, “I have one question of my own….....who pushed me in the pool!!!!!!!”
James tells us to count it all joy when we "fall in" to temptation! The Lord is the one who pushed us because that the trying of our faith builds character!
- anonymous