James 1:2–4 (ESV)

2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,

We often use the idiom, I am under stress. But, we are not under stress, we are in a crucible and stress is the wrong way we respond to it. We need to change our thinking of our vocabulary here. Stress is simply our sinful response to trials.1

Joseph A. Pipa