Saturday, May 12, 2018

Trials are faith-builders

Greetings:
Facing trials and tribulations makes our faith stronger.
This kind of testing reveals to us where we are in terms of our faith as God already knows whether or not we will pass a given test. It is as if we go through the fire of testing and trial that we can be strengthened, sanctified, and purified.
James 1:2-4 says, "Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing."
Let us discern between testing through various trials and the tempting of the devil.
Scripture denounces tempting in James 1:13 which says, "Let no one say when he is tempted, ‘I am being tempted by God’; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone."
God does allow Satan to tempt us, but we can take hope that we will not be tempted beyond what we can handle and escape from by faith as it says 1 Corinthians 10:13.
We need not fear the tests that God brings to us. Rather, we need only to trust Him to bring us through them. God is always good, faithful, and true. It is a faith-builder to know that we will end up better than we were before.
Let us stand strong in our faith.
Be blessed.


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