“ Consider it a great joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you experience various trials, because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.”
James 1:2-4
I Will Have Trials. They Will Be Good for Me.
Sometimes the truth is hard to hear and what I need to hear the most.
Because like a child who only wants sweets for dinner, I want a life free from pain, free from discomfort, free from hard.
But sugar and a soft life do nothing to make me strong.
They will weaken me. Give me no stamina. Make me unable to stand. To fight. To stay the course.
Hard has come to my life, and will come again. My faith has been put through fire, and it will be again. But He never kept this from me, like a secret, a hidden thing meant to take me by surprise.
He is not out to catch me off guard. No tricks up His holy sleeve.
He has given me truth so that I can walk in truth.
I will have trials. I will not go through them alone. They will be be good for me.
“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.”
Isaiah 43:2
Karla Jo Wasion 