Sometimes life seems to be filled with one heart ache after another. It just doesn’t seem fair nor does it seem to make any sense. Why would a loving God want us to go through the trials we encounter? Why would he want to allow the pain it brings? The answer to that question is simply found in the D.N.A. of trials. What are trials and what purpose do they serve? Trials are the hard evidence of God’s love for us. Trials build character into our lives. Trials grant us the ability to appreciate what we formerly took for granted. Trials reveal the stuff we are really made of. But perhaps more than anything, trials drive us closer to the one who permits them. God’s love for us is so intense that He is willing to do whatever he can to get us to love him. The Old Testament defines his love as "jealous." So if he is jealous, he is driven by an intensely passionate love for each of us. And if trials bring the desired results, he’ll do it. So in other words, God will resort to permitting trials to come to awaken a love within us for him. Trials give new life to prayer, new meaning to faith, and new gratitude for blessings. Trials somehow create a sense of desperation and desperation drives us usually to God. So then, can trials be proof of God's love for us? Think about it!
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
What's behind trials?
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What would life be without trials? Wow, I won the jackpot, my car hit a million miles and still going strong, my boss keeps giving me raises and I do less and less work, I was on Deal or No Deal three times and I didn't even apply for it, they came to me :) These "blessings" are not from God. It is Satan pulling you away from God because you are getting everything you want and you don't give God a second thought. Trials are God's way of slapping us upside the head and saying "Hey, I'm here, wake up and smell the coffee." Sometimes lives are so busy that when things do go well we forget to say "Thanks God, for helping out today. I appreciate it and I love you for it." Some of us are so hard-headed that it takes trial after trial, until we hit total desperation before we finally realize what needs to be done. And when you do figure out that God is there for you he finally sits back and says "Well, it certainly took you long enough! But you came back to me." Not so long ago I was at that desperate point of my life and I have said this before and I will say it again: "God didn't forget about me, I forgot about Him."
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