ORDEALS

God has told us in His word not to be surprised when we go through fiery ordeals. I have found in my life that if I will look at all the episodes in my life as experiences rather than ordeals, I can stand in the face of those hard times with warm courage and high hope. He gives us these as teaching experiences, so we can learn life’s lessons on growing with character. He teaches us how to grow into the person He so designed us to be from the very beginning. Instead of asking “why me,” we can take the lesson and say “why not?”

Yes, He told us we would go through those fiery ordeals, but when He told the disciples that, He also gave them another promise too. He told them that they would have troubles in the world, but for them to take heart, because He had overcome the world. Besides that, He also told them, (and us too, for that matter) that He would never leave us; nor forsake us, and if He has overcome the world and won’t ever leave us, and knowing that we are going to go through fiery ordeals, I’d say we can be ready for anything.....wouldn’t you?