Something to Rejoice About While You’re Suffering, if You Want To Do Better

We should rejoice in our sufferings, say what? Knowing that pressure and affliction, and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance. We’ve heard that saying, “if it doesn’t kill me, it’ll make me stronger”. This has some biblical truth about it. God allows us to go through some pretty horrendous situations to help grow our character our integrity and our faith in trusting Him. Once we latch on to the idea no matter what comes our way, we will never, ever give up on God. Endurance develops a fortitude in us, and that develops into maturity of character, which is approved faith, and tried integrity. This level of character produces the habit of joyful and confident hope of eternal salvation. With a hope like this, a confident favorable expectation, will never disappoint or cause you shame. Through faith and patience we obtain the promises of God (Hebrews 6:12). So it is of great importance to let patience have its perfect maturing way in and through you (James 1,:4-8). The only way to develop patience and endurance is to go through something that is specifically designed to rock your world. No trouble, crisis, or great hardship is ever permitted to come to us until it has been properly vetted by God himself first (1 Corinthians 10:13). If you allow the process its full longitude of expression, you will become deepened in your comprehension, your understanding, and your faith and love towards others.