Trials and Suffering
Writer Author Sylvia Huffnagle
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To those who assume the Christians who are looking to be blessed of God according to the many promises in the Bible are looking for heaven on earth, I would say, “We are not looking for heaven on earth. We are looking for what has been promised.”
2Cor: 1:20: 20: For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
This means Christians are to ask for and expect help, healing, guidance, protection, deliverance and victory.
2Pet: 1:3-4: According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 4: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
It’s believing the promises that helps Christians escape the high pressures in life that cause people to make wrong choices.
1Pet: 1:3-7: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4: To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 5: Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6: Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 7: That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
There are trials, problems, long suffering to endure. As Christians, our job is to believe what God has revealed and what He has promised and do what He has said to do. His job is to prepare us for eternal life--conforming us into the image of His Son.
We must not expect to be exempt from suffering and trials for they are growing pains. But we must believe God and expect to receive what He has promised. Many trials are because we are believing and the devil wants us to give up believing.
Jas: 1:2-4: My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3: Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4: But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
The good news is that our trials and sufferings are all well worth it, because they will be used to our good--if we love the Lord and are called according to His purpose.
Rom: 8:26-29: Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27: And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. 28: And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 29: For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
1Pet: 4:1-2: Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; 2: That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
And He meets our needs in the midst of the test, trials, and temptations. He administers, strength, comfort, joy, and encouragement. Remember He has not left us orphans, He has sent His Spirit.
Jn: 14:16-18: And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17: Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 18: I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Instead of I will not leave you comfortless in Vs 18, the Amplified Bible says; I will not leave you orphans [comfortless, desolate, bereaved, forlorn, helpless] and it spells out what the comforter does. He is the Christian’s advocate, intercessor, standby, helper, counselor, and strengthener.
Praise the Lord, you will find that God has all bases covered.
Sylvia Huffnagle
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