WhyTrials

According to Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus, a trial is the state or fact of being tested by suffering. During periods of trial we may experience affliction, agony, misery, adversity, hardship, suffering, time and again leaving us with feelings of grief, heartbreak, regret, sorrow and much more. Often complications and difficulties, leave us at a loss as to know what to do or how handle the situation or circumstance that has become our trial. As God's children, we know His Word holds every answer to every question for every problem we have, but sometimes it's difficult to find that answer. So we look for examples, people's lives who have lived before us who show us, by their example how they not only overcame their trials, but how they walked through the trials. First let's look at where all this started.

Man, Adam was created as the representation of God's thoughts. “Let us make man in our image,“ God's thoughts for us from the very beginning have been thoughts of purity and fullness, but man fell. Then, Jesus came; The Word became flesh, just as God had created Adam, Jesus came as the perfect expression of all God's thoughts.

Because of the provision of Jesus, we as God's children can walk again as the first Adam did before the fall.

“Giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light; who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love; in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins”

God has made provision through the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, for us to walk and live as the first Adam did. Free from the power of sin and darkness in our lives, and experience the kingdom of His Son everyday for the rest of our lives. When we accepted this provision, repented of our sins and gave our lives to Him, we became His children, commonly known as Christians (which really means we have become Christ like).

Christianity is not something we take up; it is not something we learn in school. It is something that we are. There is a difference between academic or intellectual Christians and anointed Christians.

Many people have been to Christian college, and are accepted because of that. However, going to a Christian college does not make you a Christian. The same is true with any church. You can go to a certain church, but that does not make you a Christian.

The identity of a Christian, a child of God, is not something we take up or something we do. We are called to represent the thoughts of God. The way we represent them is what we are. You cannot separate what a person does from who he is.

So, how then do we handle the trials that come our way? Moses is a perfect example of a person who learned how to walk through and overcome his trials.

“And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.”

Moses was a man of remarkable abilities, “learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians“. He had an extraordinary education, many credentials and natural gifts.

Somehow, at sometime he began to feel his destiny in God, to set his people free and he kills an Egyptian taskmaster. All at once, he looses everything he as ever known. He runs for his life to a foreign land. His trials have only just begun. This is the beginning of his wilderness experience.

“Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.”

Bad mood

Cantankerous mood

Disagreeable mood

Selfish mood

Depressed mood

Self pity mood he probably would have just sat there and watched and done nothing to help the ladies. But, he went willingly to help the ladies with a:

Good spirit

Freely

Voluntarily

Of his own accord

Enthusiastically he was on top of his trial. He was aware of things going on around him, even in a strange land.

Little things indicate where we are. How do we react to our trials? What does that tell others about the character of God in us?

How it must sadden the heart of our Father who has given us everything we need to be able to overcome any trial, when we go into a frame of mind that says:

It's none of my business. I don't know them.

What difference could I make?

The Lord doesn't want me.

He is better off without me.

How could He love me?

We let everything go. We don't feel like we care about anything. We have gone down during our trial and we have rendered ourselves useless.

After Jezebel, Elijah became depressed. He fled to the wilderness, to a cave in the mountain.

“And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?”

I have often wondered how this great man of God could respond to his trial with Jezebel in this manner, but then I remember he was just a man. Look at how much God loved Elijah. He came to him in the cave (his place of response to his trial) and says, “What doest thou here, Elijah?“ God forced Elijah to come to grips with himself, the attitudes of his heart. What was really in him? How did he react to his trial, and why did he react that way?

We learn in the different ways that Moses and Elijah reacted to their trials that, the Lord NEVER comes to a man and commissions or recommissions him when he is in despair.

Despair is lost faith in God and God can NEVER do anything with one who has lost faith.

Why trials? Our reaction to trials reveals to ourselves, reveals to others, as well as reveals to God, whose character is in us.

I thank you Father, that Your Word is truth. I trust Your love for me and I know You always have my best interest at heart. Lord please help me to recognize the trials in my life as tools from You to strengthen me in my relationship with You. May those around me see through me how faithful You always are. I need Your strength and Your ability to be an overcomer. Help me Lord to find principles in Your Word that I can apply to my life and refocus all my attention on Your plan for me and not my fear of failure, or frustration with my life. I trust You to guide my steps as I surrender to You, thank you for making the way for me to be an overcomer.

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