Title: Trials and Test
Scriptures: My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. – James 1:2 – 4
A boy entered a grocery store and asked the grocer for a box of Duz detergent. The grocer was puzzled and asked why he wanted a box of Duz. The boy said that he was going to wash his cat. The grocer said, “Youlg man, you shouldn’t wash your cat with this kind of soap.” However, the boy insisted that it would be okay.
A few days later, the boy returned, and grocer asked the cat. “Oh, he died,” said the boy. The grocer said, “Well, son. I warned you not to wash your cat with Duz detergent.” The boy replied, “The soap did not hurt him a bit. It was the spin cycle that got him.”
It is the spin cycle of trials that often get us. Trials are only passing experiences! Times of heaviness do visit us but they do not come to stay.Trials are very purifying experiences! If we properly respond to God’s purposes for the trials, we can believe with the patriarch, “But He knoweth the way that I take: when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold” (Job 23:10).
[pullquote]ADVERSITY IS THE DIAMOND DUST HEAVEN POLISHES ITS JEWELS WITH.[/pullquote]Trials are always preparing experiences! There is a reason for the trials. There is a need for the trial. The enduring of the trial makes you what you are. I hear people say that they hope their children don’t have to experience the hardships they went through. I don’t agree with that statement. Those hardships made you what you are.Every trial that finds its way into our life came with intentional purpose.
let me share a story with you.A Young Christian was attempting to get into the peach growing business. He had worked hard and invested everything he had in a peach orchard which had blossomed beautifully, but then came a frost, and it destroyed his entire crop. He did not go to church the next Sunday nor the next. So his pastor went to see him to find out why. The young fellow said, “Pastor I’m not coming to church any more. Do you think I can worship a God who cares so little for me that He would let a frost kill all of my peaches?” The preacher looked at him for a few moments in silence, and then said so kindly, “Son, God loves you better than He loves your peaches. You see God understands that while peaches can grow without frost, men cannot grow without trials. God is not in the business of growing peaches. He’s in the business of growing Christians.”
weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning. Psalms 30:5
Finally A preacher was delivering a sermon before a large congregation. He pointed out that believers aren’t exempt from trouble. In fact, some Christians are surrounded by trouble — trouble to the right, trouble to the left, trouble in front, and trouble behind. At this, a man who had served the Lord for many years, shouted, “Glory to God, it’s always open at the top!” To improve your outlook in trials, try the up look.May we always be looking to the Lord as we journey through this life with its trials and test.
Prayer Points
- Father I pray please open my eyes to see and heart to understand the lesson you are trying to teach me
- Father put an end to evil cycle in my life in Jesus name
- Father give me the grace to endure through every trial and test in my life in Jesus name
