Trials

17. November 2008 by admin.

Right now, I am going through a trial. What’s the trial? You ask. I’m not telling. The wound is too fresh.

Suffice it to say, I have two choices before me. I can see this circumstance as a huge disaster or I can use it as an opportunity to train. This could be the extra weight I need to strengthen my spiritual and mental muscles. Seeing it as a disaster would be easy for me - too easy. Seeing it as a training tool is difficult - too difficult, almost as difficult as the trial itself.

After moping for days, I’ve decided to buckle down and enter into the training process. (Ugh! It’s hard for me to say that.) I’m counting this trial as a joy.

“Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing” (James 1:2-4, NASB).

I’ve spent the last month studying and memorizing James Chapter 1, not knowing I would encounter fiery darts shortly thereafter. If I had not prepared myself with this Word, I would be falling apart right now. The avalanche of despair and self pity would have stifled me completely.

And that’s far worse than the trial itself.

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