Who do you believe man or the Word of God?
The Book of Romans 5: 3-5
in the Holy Bible says:
"We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that
they are good for us – they help us learn to endure. And endurance develops strength of character in us, and character
strengthens our confident expectation of salvation. And this expectation will not disappoint us. For we know how dearly God
loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his
love."
Yes, according to the
Word of God, the trials that we experience serve a divine purpose in our lives
because they help us learn to endure and, in enduring those trials, our
character is strengthened and in the strengthening of our character, our faith in
God's salvation is ensured. Friends, God's ways are not our ways - He is supreme
in wisdom and He knows how to conform us to exactly what He wants us to be. He
knows what experiences, events and people to use in order to conform us to the
image of Jesus Christ. He knows exactly how to purify us by fire. Through all of
our trials we can trust God and His faithfulness. After all, if God did not spare
His son to die for us, how can we not believe Him to take care of us, as it is
written in Romans 8: 31-39:
"What
can we say about such wonderful things as these?
If God is for us, who can ever be against us?
Since God did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won't God,
who gave us Christ, also give us everything else?
Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? Will God?
No! He is the one who has given us right standing with Himself.
Who then will condemn us? Will Christ Jesus?
No, for he is the one who died for us and was raised to life for us and is
sitting at the place of highest honor next to God, pleading for us.
Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love? Does it mean he no
longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or are hungry
or cold or in danger or threatened with death? (Even the Scriptures say,
"For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep." )
No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who
loved us. And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from his love.
Death can't, and life can't. The angels can't, and the demons can't. Our fears
for today, our worries about tomorrow, and even the powers of hell can't keep
God's love away. Whether we are high above the sky or in the deepest ocean,
nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God
that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord."
