Faith in Action

Trials come to everyone. Trouble is just the normal course of life. You would be hard pressed to find a single person on earth that has not faced difficulties in some way and you certainly won’t find any successful person who has never faced problems. The Christian life is no different, it is full of tests as we talked about last week. We will have problems in our marriage, we will have accidents that could keep us from working and effect our income. Our kids might rebel against us, or countless other scenarios. It isn’t necessarily a pull toward sin, though that is a possibility too.

Our goal is to focus on the right perspective on these trials and how we can think correctly about them and respond properly. We said last week that trials in and of themselves are not a source of joy, but we believe that “all things work together for good to them that love God”. We are to count it, meaning we consider it joy or deem it joy, like when we embrace the pain of a work out or the discipline of practice at whatever we want to get better at.