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We know God is always molding us on His anvil, He is always doing that even when we are not facing trial, He is consistent in that endeavor. He is going to mold us into the people He wants us to be. So what are we gaining in trial that we would otherwise not gain? Perseverance, and it is possible to gain joy. That we learn from James 1:2-3 . Why do we need this perseverance? And is it really possible to gain joy in a trial?
Maybe we say I don’t want perseverance. If this is what I have to go through to get it I can live without it! The first part of that answer as to why follows in verse 4 . We also find out in Hebrews 12:1-2 that we need that perseverance to run the race that we are running. Perseverance gives us the ability to keep running, to endure the race. Better yet, we receive what we need as we run, as we are enduring the trial. God will give us what we need to persevere through it if we ask it of Him. This we learn from Matt 21:22 . If we are asking God for things that we know He desires us to have, He will give them to us, and perseverance is one of them. Along with that He desires for us to experience joy in the trial.
Back to James 1:2, where James tell us to "Consider it all joy my brothers when you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance." (Jam 1:2-3 NIV). God intends for us to have joy in the trial. He does not want us to be defeated. If we are getting the very thing God knows we need to run the race and endure it to the end–that is our source of joy in the trial. God is giving us what we need! We need to view our race as Paul did when he wrote to the Philippians. He said "but one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." (Phil 3:13-14 NIV). With that goal in mind, we will see that God is giving us what we need to get there, the very thing that we need to endure the race, to make it to the end.
It is not an easy task to view things from that perspective, but with God we can. We need to be asking Him to give us what we need, asking Him to give us what He desires for us, not what we desire. For this to happen we need to be spending time with Him in prayer doing what 1 John 5:14 says, asking God for things according to His will, not ours.
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