"When trouble comes your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For
you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. SO LET IT GROW!"
No one looks for trouble but in this lifetime is is sure to come. Have you ever asked yourself, as a child of God, why is it that you have trouble? Do you think that life on earth is going to be perfect for believer's? How many times has the question been asked, "why do bad things happen to Good, or God's, people? Another favorite of non believer's is, "why would a Good God allow bad things to happen?" If you believe that your life here on earth is all that there is then you could come to that conclusion, but, you would be wrong. They do not know or understand that we are just passing through on our way to Heaven and perfection with God!
The One Truth Today is explaining that when trouble comes your way, and it will, consider it an opportunity for great joy. The Lord is testing your faith to allow your endurance to grow,
SO LET IT GROW!
No matter what trouble you encounter here on earth always remember and understand that this is your way to prove your faith in God and your endurance is being tested! When you seek the Lord first in everything that you do, He will have the right answer for your problem. You will develop steadfastness, endurance and increasing faith and patience as you overcome the troubles of this world. We will become fully developed spiritually even as our body is subjected to death, decay and troubles. There is no perfection here on earth, only in Heaven!
Consider any trouble as an opportunity for great joy as you grow in the Lord! SO LET IT GROW!
We know that it is difficult to feel great joy if you are crippled, or diseased. We know that when you lose a love one it is not a time for happiness. Yet the Lord tells us to Rejoice, and again He says Rejoice. This is where you have an opportunity to realize where you stand when it comes to Faith in God. Do you know for sure that you will trade your imperfect body for one of perfection in Heaven. Do you know that you will be reunited with those you love again on the other side. The blind see, the deaf hear, the lame jump for joy, that is the reward for your endurance. The dead rise to a new and eternal life of perfection. If you are a child of God then when your faith is tested, LET IT GROW!
