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Wisdom in times of hardship
Have you ever gone through hard times in your lives?
When you go through hard times, what goes on in your mind?
What do you tell yourself?
What is this happening to me?
What did I do to deserve this?
This is so unfair.
This has happened to me so many times, I think I am cursed.
I think these are the thoughts that go through our minds when we go through hardship.
I know I have thoughts like that before.
This is our natural response because we don’t like suffering and we don’t think that it is good for us.
Correct?
We think that suffering is for bad people.
Good people like us should not have to go through suffering like this.
Maybe we don’t say it, but deep down inside, we think think that we should not suffer in our lives.
So is this the truth?
Is suffering bad for us?
Does suffering make our lives harder?
If we look through the Bible, guess what the Bible says about suffering.
Paul wrote this
Peter wrote this
Paul wrote this
It says in these 3 verses to do what?
To rejoice.
Wow, to rejoice in our suffering.
How many of us have rejoiced in our suffering before.
Paul knew what suffering was.
He suffered much in his life.
Peter was the disciple who denied Jesus but later Jesus trusted him to take care of his sheep.
He suffered in his life for the gospel.
These 2 men of God knew what suffering felt like and both write that they rejoice in their suffering.
Why do they rejoice in their suffering?
What is the work of suffering in our lives?
Let us look at 1 Peter 1:3-8
1 Pet 1:1-
In this letter to Christians who were persecuted and were suffering, Peter encourages them to remember that they are Children of God and that God has given them an inheritance that will not disappear.
And this inheritance is the promise that God is with them and that God will never leave them.
God has chosen them and will protect them till the last day and bring salvation to them.
It goes on to tell us about suffering and
1) Suffering tests our faith and measures our growth
In verse 6-7 it says:
1 Peter 1:
Trials will test the genuineness of our faith and this is what is most important to God.
It says that our faith is more precious that Gold.
Trials grow our faith in God and makes the faith we know in our minds real.
God tells us in his word that he will never leave us for forsake us.
Do we believe him and do we trust him?
I always say that unless you act on the word of God, it is not real to you.
Real faith is faith that is practiced in our lives.
Many people will say that they have faith in God but unless they live it in their lives, it is only a thought.
You don’t really have it unless you have trusted in God and allowed God to work in your life.
When we go through trials we have a choice of how we want to respond to it.
We can either get bitter and blame God or some people for what is happening or we can learn something from it.
I believe that every time we go through trials, God wants to teach us something.
We need to be open to ask God God what do you want to teach me in this trial that i’m going through?
If we choose to blame God and others for what is happening and we only want God to take away our suffering, we will only get through the trial and get nothing from it.
We will continue to worry about what if there are more troubles that come.
But if we respond to God, and allow God to teach us and purify us, we will grow in our faith, character and wisdom.
God desires that we benefit from our trials.
I learnt this when I was growing up as a Christian.
God taught me all of my faith basics through trials.
Here are a few:
When I was a new Christian, I knew that God is Holy and he does not like sin.
So when I sinned, I was so ashamed of my sin because I told God that I will not do that again.
But I still did it.
it was so bad that I felt that I did not want to go to church anymore.
But my friends in church came looking for me when they knew I had stopped coming to Church.
They prayed for me and showed me love.
As they prayed for me and shared with me, God told me that he loves me and when I sin, I need to come to him.
Not run away.
I experienced the grace of God like never before at that time.
From that day on, every time I sin and I feel guilty and want to run away again, I will come to God and pray and ask him to forgive me.
This changed the way I relate to God and it helped me to receive power to grow in holiness.
There was another time when I was in a Job that I didn’t like.
I had to do alot of admin and it was not my strength.And this Job requires me to work alot of overtime.
I want to quit my job.
So I applied for many Jobs hoping that they will call back.
i prayed that God will give me a new Job.
But no company called back.
I could’t stay in the Job anymore and I cried out to God and asked him why he will not let me leave the company.
I was angry with God that I had to stay in this Job and suffer.
I demanded that God let me quit my Job.
But God’s reply was no.
God spoke to me one day as I was begging God to give me what I wanted.
It was so bad that I cried.
But God spoke to me and said, if I only want to have my way and will not obey him, he will not be able to use me.
I had told God earlier that I wanted to give my life to God and I wanted him to use me.
God’s purpose for my suffering was for me to learn to bey him and trust him that he will make my path straight.
When I began to be willing to grow in my obedience, I told God that i will stay as long as he wants me to and I will not complain.Everyday
I tell myself, God has his timing.
He will not let me stay one day less or one day more in this stayed another 1.5 years before God opened the door and gave me another Job.
In total i stayed in the company for 2.5 yers.
In those years in the old company I learnt how to do reports, how to manage clients and do presentations.
All these skills I would use later in my life for what God has called me to do.
In the end I benefited from from obeying God.
I grew in my skills, my attitude and my faith in God.
When we allow God to teach us, we will grow.
As Christians, we have a new life that God has given us and things that have life grow.
What kinds of things don’t grow?
Dead things don’t grow ok.
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