There is nothing like a little test or trial to do a spot check on your faith. In a season of testing and trials for many of us, I pray God’s Word will bring comfort to you today!…
James 1:2-5 (NASB)
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. 5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
Enduring tests and trials, surviving tests and trials, asking God to remove us from tests and trials is a more normative response for many of us than THANKING GOD for tests and trials or EMBRACING THEM WITH JOY!
Remember the writer of Hebrews tells us that Jesus sympathizes with our human weakness and encourages us to draw near to Him where we find mercy and grace in our time of need (tests and trials) (Hebrews 4:14-16). I can’t think of anything more joyful than the presence of God so clearly felt in our deepest times of need. Remember trials come in different forms and different severities and all are temporary, limited to this life.
There is a purpose for test and trials, most notably, to test or purify our faith, as fire is to gold and silver, to prove and perfect faith already within us. Christ is always in the process of perfecting or making our faith complete. It is through tests and trials that we get the opportunity to show ourselves faithful so that God can shower blessings on us in His future Kingdom on this earth and beyond in the new heavens and earth He will re-create (Revelation 21).
Through tests and trials we have the opportunity to be light in a dark world and to reflect Jesus without words to those around us. In any test or trial, ask God for His wisdom, for in Christ we already have our answers. It is easy to trust in Jesus for eternal life, but it takes more faith to trust in God’s daily provisions. Tests and trials are all an essential part of God’s plan to help us become His disciples today and for our eternal rewards.
May we all be found faithful according to the riches of His mercy and grace and may God build in you a mature, complete faith that glorifies the radiance of Himself!
In all my agape,
Pastor Steve
James 1:2-5 (NASB)
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. 5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
Enduring tests and trials, surviving tests and trials, asking God to remove us from tests and trials is a more normative response for many of us than THANKING GOD for tests and trials or EMBRACING THEM WITH JOY!
Remember the writer of Hebrews tells us that Jesus sympathizes with our human weakness and encourages us to draw near to Him where we find mercy and grace in our time of need (tests and trials) (Hebrews 4:14-16). I can’t think of anything more joyful than the presence of God so clearly felt in our deepest times of need. Remember trials come in different forms and different severities and all are temporary, limited to this life.
There is a purpose for test and trials, most notably, to test or purify our faith, as fire is to gold and silver, to prove and perfect faith already within us. Christ is always in the process of perfecting or making our faith complete. It is through tests and trials that we get the opportunity to show ourselves faithful so that God can shower blessings on us in His future Kingdom on this earth and beyond in the new heavens and earth He will re-create (Revelation 21).
Through tests and trials we have the opportunity to be light in a dark world and to reflect Jesus without words to those around us. In any test or trial, ask God for His wisdom, for in Christ we already have our answers. It is easy to trust in Jesus for eternal life, but it takes more faith to trust in God’s daily provisions. Tests and trials are all an essential part of God’s plan to help us become His disciples today and for our eternal rewards.
May we all be found faithful according to the riches of His mercy and grace and may God build in you a mature, complete faith that glorifies the radiance of Himself!
In all my agape,
Pastor Steve
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