Do you ever wonder why some people get bombarded with trials in their life, and others don't?
I thought about this today and wonder how certain people can handle things better than others.
Let's think about people who run marathons for a minute.They have to train for years to prepare for that one marathon day. The training ... exercise ... stretches, etc .... they have to equip themselves or they won't be able to handle it.
Kind of like a rubber band. As long as you keep stretching it out, it will continue to work fine.
But once you leave it in the draw for a few years & then take it out to use, it breaks because it lost all its elasticity.
This seems to be the same theory as the trials we face in our lives, and the timing of them. All of our life we are given little crumbs of trials that prepares us for a bigger one (like exercises I guess you would say) but the people that can't handle their trials are people who don't look at the trial as a learning experience or an exercise and grow from it. This is how God works. He equips certain people in their life's for the trials that He already knows about. It is up to us to learn or grow from them to prepare us for the next one ... and there will be a next one!
With Gods grace, we can get through them.
Here is a song for you http://youtu.be/uHdcyue0bSw
I so love you and the fact that God continues to work through you knowing exactly what words we need to hear at the most opportune time. You have been blessed by God to share your knowledge and faithful advice to others. We as believers may think we already know it all however even so when we are really tested sometimes we can lose our way and get discouraged regardless of our faith. What I have tried do is reflect back on the the times when I thought there was no light at the end of the tunnel and that all was lost however quickly remember that with Gods guidance and blessings I got through it all. Looking back, we realize as painful as the trials seemed to be when we were going through them we, we soon realize that everything happens for a reason to prepare us for something better. May God bless us, each and every moment to continue to learn from our trials and tribulations making us better people and for God to continue to use us as instruments of his word. God bless you my friend!
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