Patience in Trials

I know we really have it easy. At least I do, in terms of living in a peaceful country with good living conditions and where one is allowed to live as a believer without being in danger of being killed for one's faith, at least not yet. We know from scripture that true saints of God are going to have to endure persecution for their faith. But it also says to rejoice! Perhaps the persecution would largely be from family (or in the workplace maybe) for those in countries with "religious freedom". I know our Lord said there must be division for His sake (Matthew 10). We most likely will also be persecuted for our uncompromising position by others claiming Christ...although I thought love was to be a major character among God's people? The sad reality is that it is not so. It is the reality of the sad state of their hearts. 

So I am encouraged by these verses which I am sharing here that the saints that have gone before us have written. I am sure the Lord will give His faithful and obedient ones strength when we face trials in our lives...no matter how small or big they are. The scriptures are filled with such verses and it would be a worthwhile study to do to be strengthened and encouraged that the Lord will be with us through everything. We just have to be faithful!

 

So, my sisters-in-Christ, if times of greater persecution arise in the future we know we can endure through Christ! And we CAN endure through all the things we face today when we go fully with the Word and become set apart peculiar people zealous for good works.

 

 

"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me."

(Philippians 4:13)

 

 

 

"For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed;

we are perplexed, but not in despair;

Persecuted, but not forsaken;

cast down, but not destroyed;

Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh." 

 

(2 Corinthians 4:6-11)

"That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know."

(1 Thessalonians 3:3-4)

"Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution."

(2 Timothy 3:12)

"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us." 

(Romans 8:35-37)

 

Amen! We can be more than conquerors through our Saviour!

Glory to God!