Things Above Thought
TAT #58
Suffering #2
Fact #30 Trials can come into my life that are for God’s purposes (Job 1:7).
There are times that God wants us to suffer!?!
When does God want me to suffer?
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. (James 1:2–4)
In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ; (1 Peter 1:6–7)
And if the above does not happen then:
If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. (1 Corinthians 3:15 underline added)
God wants our faith to be perfect and complete thus producing eternal praise, glory, and honor. Godly suffering produces such results!