“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”
(Psalms 46:1,
ESV)
“A faith that can’t be tested can’t be trusted.” (Warren Wiersbe)
In his classic
and I highly recommended book Knowing God,
J.I. Packer writes: “We should not,
therefore, be too taken back when unexpected and upsetting and discouraging
things happen to us now. What do they mean? Why, simply that God in his wisdom
means to make something of us which we have not attained yet, and is dealing
with us accordingly…
It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is
most vivid and sweet, and Christian joy the greatest, when the cross is
heaviest.”
Packer then
suggests two ways of handling the trails of life when we cannot, for the moment,
see God’s purpose in them. “First, by taking them as
from God, and asking ourselves what reactions to them, and in them, the gospel
of God requires of us; second, by
seeking God’s face specifically about them. If we do these two things, we shall
never find ourselves wholly in the dark as to God’s purpose in troubles.”
[Quote from: J.I. Packer, Knowing
God (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1973), Page 86-87]
I hear your soul whispers, ‘Easy for you to say...’
I reply, ‘No,
it’s definitely not an easy task.
God
asked us not for an easy life but a faithful life, trust Him’
“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”
THINK
BIG. START SMALL. GO DEEP.
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