Trials are absolutely inevitable and essential for our spiritual growth:
John 16:33 NLT I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world."
They won't be pleasant, but they won't last forever:
Psalms 23:4 NLT Even when I walk through the darkest valley,* I will not be afraid, for you are close beside me. Your rod and your staff protect and comfort me.
We may, like King David ask ourselves :
Psalms 43:5 NIV
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
James 1:2-3 NIV Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds,
because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
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