Believers’ experience of life

God has a purpose in all the experiences that believers have in life

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Rejection of this conviction leads to despair

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God uses every experience in the lives of believers for good

To warn and correct

Psalm 119:67 ESV

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.

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To test and exercise believers’ trust in God

Deuteronomy 8:15–16 ESV

who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock, who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end.

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To purify and prepare believers for glory

2 Corinthians 4:16–17 ESV

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,

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To benefit others

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In all of life’s experiences believers should be thankful and trusting

Philippians 4:6 ESV

do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

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Believers do not merit the blessings they receive

Psalm 103:10 ESV

He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities.

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