Are you passing through the deep waters of trials and disappointment?
Does everything seem to be going against you?
These apparent misfortunes are not accidents. The Lord Jesus allows such things for a blessed purposes.
John 16:33 tells us, "In the world you will have tribulation." Even God's children are not promised a life of ease, of prosperity, nor of good health. Yet we are never alone in our trouble. Isaiah 43:2 reminds us that when we pass through deep waters, God is with us.
John 16:33 tells us, "In the world you will have tribulation." Even God's children are not promised a life of ease, of prosperity, nor of good health. Yet we are never alone in our trouble. Isaiah 43:2 reminds us that when we pass through deep waters, God is with us.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without adversity.
The Bible tells us that tribulation produces perseverance, character, hope and confidence by the Holy Spirit (Romans 5:3-5)
In Psalm 119:71, David wrote, "It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes." And Hebrews 12:11 says that chastening "yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness."
There are no mountain top that we can climb to, no crevice we can hide in, or deserted island to flee to, that can keep pain, death, hardship, and suffering away from us. These are all the natural consequences of sin.
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