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God's love does not always keep us from

trials,
but it

There are all kinds of tests and trials

that come as a part of life.

Everyone experiences situations or circumstances

that are less than ideal, or that you have to struggle
with or rise above on a daily basis.

Life on Earth is a training and testing ground,

one which teaches you to make the right
decisions despite the hardships.

It teaches you to see things positively even when you

feel like things are hopeless, to choose to love and
share and sacrifice even when you don't have
enough, to choose to do the right thing even when
everything around you is wrong.

The difficulties that you face in

Without
thecharacter.
tests, there would be no testimony.
life are
what shape
These are the tools that God uses
Without these nagging weaknesses, these annoyances,
to make you into the men and
these
sins
embarrassing problems and
women
that besetting
He needs you
to these
be.

obtacles, your faith would not be tested.

Only in the hot

furnace of
affliction do we
as Christians let
go of the dross
to which,
in our
foolishness, we
ardently cling.

So even if you don't always understand WHY you're going through tests,
trials, hardships and breakings, remember, GOD knows what He's doing!
He knows all the purposes and reasons behind each test, trial or trouble.
He promises, "ALL things
work together for GOOD
to them that love the
Lord!" (Romans 8:28) He
is not going to allow
ANYTHING to happen to
you, His child, except
what is for your GOOD!
Of course, we often feel
like, "My goodness! A
LOT of things happen that
don't look very good to
ME!" But sooner or later
you will find out that
somehow or another they
WERE good for you!

EVERYONE who has ever been of any real use to the Lord, had to
first be broken, humbled and brought virtually to the END of
THEMSELVES.
Otherwise, they would be too proud and self-confident in their own
fleshly talents and natural abilities, and would take the glory to
THEMSELVES if God were to use them.

This is why He chooses to use the WEAK things and the FOOLISH
things, "that NO FLESH should glory in His presence!"
(1Corinthians 1:25-29)

A bar of steel worth $5

When wrought into horseshoes, is worth $10
If made into needles, it is worth $350
If into penknife blades, it is worth $32,000
If into springs for watches, it is worth $250,000

What a drilling the poor bar must undergo to be worth this!

But the more it is manipulated the more it is hammered, and passed through
the fire, and beaten and pounded and polished, the greater the value.
Sir Henry Bessemer (18131898), British inventor and engineer

The
diamond
cannot be
polished
without
friction, nor
the man
perfected
without
trials.

That the trial of your faith, being much

more precious than of gold that perish,
though it be tried with fire, might be
found unto praise & honor & glory at
the appearing of Jesus Christ.
1Peter 1:7

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