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It sounds too good to be true -- triumph through trials. It even sounds contradictory. Trials: the word is pregnant with heaviness: -- pain, "Oh God, how can I stand it; can't someone do something about it?" -- misery, "Let me die; I can't go on any more." -- fear, "Is it cancer? How long do I
Trials are a blessing. What? Trials, a blessing? How are these stumbling stones, these thorns in my side, a blessing? Indeed. And not only blessings, but they are essential to life as a Christian and essential for us to bring our walk of faith closer to God. You see, to refine gold, there is a fire.
And in the end, when we come to those two words in the English, trials and temptations, they come from one Greek word for a reason. It's because at the root of it, they are exactly the same. The difference is in the purpose, the intended purpose of the devil, and the intended purpose of God. The
There are the afflictions of anxiety and depression in the soul and in the mind exceeding what we can comprehend, afflicting us over and over and over and over and seemingly littering the way before us so that we know our whole path is filled with this trial. There is the trial of grief and the
Allow the devil to tempt us, and even use the temptation of the devil as a trial to our faith. Let our faith grow and be strengthened. The trials of the text then, are trials that are given to us under the sovereign direction and control of God. They are trials that are ordered by the sovereign G
What is genuine Christianity? What is true faith? Now James looks at that here at the very beginning of the epistle in this. What does this true faith and genuine Christianity look like in trials? What's the viewpoint of the believer as they go through, or as he goes through, trials? That's what'
This is the way that God has ordained for every one of us in his eternal counsel, and it is the way that God leads us according to his almighty and everywhere present power that is his providence. When James speaks of diverse temptations, we can begin by the temptations or the trials, and I'll
Trials are a part of a Christian’s life. God sends them with the purpose to draw His children nearer unto Him, and that His name may be glorified in and thru them. We read in Zechariah 13:9: “And I will bring the third part thru the fire and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them a
The trials are there to demonstrate to us in our lives the reality of eternal things in which we believe, to show us that being a believer, in a sense, is worthwhile, it works. The psalmist experienced that and he understood that in Psalm 73. He looked at the ungodly and he was envious of them.
Through troubles and trials, In Him we confide. Trials