I've talked to several people in the past week or so who have been going through some trials and tribulations and frankly they are getting weary.
Whether we like it or not, and whether we ever want to fully face up to this reality, every single one us, saved or unsaved, will have to face a certain amount of trials and tribulations as we journey through life.
As a result of living in a fallen, cursed, and imperfect world because of what happened in the story of Adam and Eve, every single one of us will have to face a certain amount of trials and tribulations in our walk.
Unless you have a full understanding as to why God will sometimes allow bad things to happen to good people, you can have your personal faith levels in the Lord shaken to its very core depending on the severity of the storm that may have just struck you or a loved one.
The Bible tells us that God’s people can perish for having lack of knowledge – and not having the right kind of knowledge to fully understand why bad things happen to good people, especially to Christians, can cause you to perish in your own personal relationship with the Lord, if you allow it.
You can learn how to keep some of the adversity that may strike you in this life away from you if you can learn how to properly plead the blood of Jesus for deliverance and protection, along with learning how to walk with God’s anointing. If you can learn how to walk with God’s anointing in your life, then you can either keep a lot of these storms from ever hitting you in the first place, or you can quickly defeat them once they do come knocking at your door.
Until we get to the New Heaven and the New Earth after the millennial rule of Jesus from the city of Jerusalem, the curse of Adam and Eve will continue to stay in place on this earth, and as a result, we will all have to face a certain amount trials and unpleasant circumstances.
What gets many Christians in trouble is not having a full understanding as to why this has to happen to them in the first place, especially since they are now born-again believers who are serving a God who is supposed to be all-good, all-loving, and all-merciful.
Look what it says in James 1:2 (Amplified): “Consider it wholly joyful, my brethren, whenever you are enveloped in or encounter trials of any sort or fall into various temptations.”
Being joyful in the midst of our trials is difficult to understand. It ranks up there with "in everything give thanks". We know that God is not trying to frustrate us or defeat us but to conform us to the image of His Son and in so doing He wastes no trial or circumstance, no adversity, no affliction, no sickness, no success, no failure in achieving His end. Remember God never commands to do His will in any area, that He does not also supply us the grace and power necessary to fulfill it
Just study the lives of some of the greatest saints in the Bible, and look at some of the severe adversity that each one of them had to personally face in their lives.
The apostle Paul is a perfect example. He literally had to face hell and high water – and that was after he was saved and working full time for the Lord.
We simply have to develop the mindset that we have to learn how walk through the trials by wearing the whole armor of God ,in the presences of God and with God's leading.
If you are willing to take the storm clouds head-on like David did with Goliath and like Paul did in prison, you have no idea how many other people you may be able to save, touch, heal, and deliver.
Remember to keep the faith and keep your eyes on God, no matter what happens.
Be blessed.
No comments:
Post a Comment