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The affliction, or hardship may have involved someone close to us passing away or maybe it was the pain we felt when being mocked by classmates—persecution for righteousness’ sake—perhaps when not giving in to peer pressure at school. We were going through hardship in spite of ourselves. We were not
How are we to understand what we regard as these problems? To use the scriptural analogy of strangers and sojourners, these issues are speed bumps and potholes on the road of life. Our lives are sometimes difficult, or at least harder than we would like them to be. The writer to the Hebrews knows us
Just think for example of the very common form of adversity known as persecution. Persecution is indeed a very severe form of adversity. When Gods people have their homes and their families taken away from them because of their firm stand upon the truths of Scripture, that is persecution (adversity)
The meaning is that you endure the hand of God upon you – very really, and strikingly enough – you learn to be patient with God. As Job put it, “What! shall we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil?” Endure what? “Endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ (II Tim. 2:3
To some, He might send an illness. Others, He sends death of a family member. Yet still others, He sends desolation, poverty and pestilence. It may be even something so simple (or so it seems to others) as no friends or the fact that at the time we have to struggle through school. We each have our o
Difficulties come by his providence. At times we may be tempted to want to question God. It is hard for us to understand when God gives us afflictions. It may be that we have been given a physical infirmity that we must live with, or that we suffer to make ends meet, or that a loved one is taken awa
But each of you shall face different difficulties and obstacles. Some of you have already faced particular trials and afflictions. Some of you shall face great difficulties and sorrows. Each of you will face particular temptations, even though with every temptation God shall also “make a way to esca
These people endured through hardships, the likes of which we may never see, and were constantly strengthened by these hardships. We must learn from them to look at these trials from God as a positive means of strengthening our own lives. The ultimate role model is Christ. He lived the perfect life
God often has a very busy schedule of hardships for the short life of his saints as he reveals to them through these trials the depth of their sins and miseries and also the wonder of his love and grace in Christ. Jacob was no exception, and serves as a pattern and example for our lives.
Because you have not lived for many years, you young people have not yet experienced a great deal of adversity. But even you undoubtedly face difficulties. Maybe school is not going well for you; maybe you are in conflict mode with your parents or your friends; maybe you can’t find a decent job. The