Temptations and Patience

	Jam 1:2	My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
	Jam 1:3	Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

When I fall into temptations, I am often worried and becme uneasy.

James, who identified himself as a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, however, advises me to count it all joy when I fall into divers temptations. So rather than complaining about divers temptations I fall into, I need to count it all joy.

I looked up the word temptation:

Lexicon Results for peirasmos (Strong's 3986)
Greek for 3986
Pronunciation Guide
peirasmos {pi-ras-mos'}
TDNT Reference	Root Word
TDNT - 6:23,822	from 3985
Part of Speech
n m
Outline of Biblical Usage
1) an experiment, attempt, trial, proving a) trial, proving: the trial made of you by my bodily condition, since condition served as to test the love of the Galatians toward Paul (Gal. 4:14) b) the trial of man's fidelity, integrity, virtue, constancy 1) an enticement to sin, temptation, whether arising from the desires or from the outward circumstances 2) an internal temptation to sin a) of the temptation by which the devil sought to divert Jesus the Messiah from his divine errand 3) of the condition of things, or a mental state, by which we are enticed to sin, or to a lapse from the faith and holiness 4) adversity, affliction, trouble: sent by God and serving to test or prove one's character, faith, holiness c) temptation (i.e. trial) of God by men 1) rebellion against God, by which his power and justice are, as it were, put to the proof and challenged to show themselves