outside, you also find yourself pulled away from God from within, a process described with uncomfortable accuracy in James 1:13–15. Something of the pain these trials cause is hinted at by James when he describes how they come our way. Some of the translations are rather tame when they speak of the trials we might ‘face’, when James really speaks of the trials we ‘fall into’. The same word is used in the parable told by Jesus of the Good Samaritan to describe the fate of the unfortunate traveller