Times of testing… At times it seems like our life is going to pieces… The trials of life are normal and needful- they can build our Faith and Character. Learn to grow through the times of testing!
How to cope when you face times of suffering. Reasons why we can gain from trials. God’s promises can help us find strength.
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Jeremiah 18. God is like a Potter working on His people. He has a plan and design. He uses the raw material that is you and me. We are but clay in His hands. We are the work of His hands – His craftsmanship. What is God’s purpose for our life? We are all a lump of clay that the potter is working on. God knows what He is doing. He allows a measure of suffering in our lives. He’s forming His own character in us. You can be made fit for the master’s use.
Jeremiah pictures God as a Potter working on His people. He fashions us, He fires us, and He fills us. Do you want to be made into a vessel useful for the Master’s use?
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The Book of Job is one of the oldest books in the world. It tells of Job’s life and suffering. Job was a God-fearing man. His life was one of TRIAL, TESTIMONY, and TRUST. God can use tests and storms whilst we may not always understand.
Journey through Job. Meet the man. Learn of his trial, his testimony, his trust. Experience his suffering and witness his faith and faithfulness. In Job we see our need of the Redeemer and our Mediator, the Daysman, Jesus Christ.
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Isaiah 53:1-12. The Gospel of Isaiah portrays the Sorrows, the Suffering, and the Sin borne by our Saviour at Calvary. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Isaiah 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men… DESPISED – an object of hatred – abused, beaten. He was hated so that we could be loved. REJECTED – treated with utter contempt, unwanted, forsaken. He was rejected so that we could be accepted. God accepts people. This man receiveth sinners. The blind, the prostitutes, the lepers, the poor. He was GRIEF STRICKEN – the One motivated by joy knew all about suffering and grief. He bore the full brunt of it to bring us Life.