Hi Folks,
I hope you had a very blessed weekend!
Our devot. for this week is on the 12 lessons we can learn from trials and adversities.
What can God teach us and what can we learn from painful experiences in life? We can learn and gain much spiritually if we are willing to ask God help us see things through His eyes.
I was thinking of 2 Peter 1:4-9 today in relation to what can be learned in trials, "Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature (once we have received Christ, God gives us the ability, strength to live a Christ like life), having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; (morality) and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; (self control) and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness (Christ likenes); And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity (Christian love).
For if these things be in you, and abound, (are alive and growing you!) they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
But he that lacketh these things is blind, (Spiritually) and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins (forgetting that your sins, past, present and future were forgiven by Jesus when you received Him as your Savior)."
Many times the trials we go through can produce "fruit" in our lives, a more Christ like way of living, but we have to be willing to learn as we go, willing to let the Lord use this trial in our lives to produce the character He would wish us to have.
I pray the devot. below is useful to your week and that you grow from it!
Lord bless you and yours!
Devot. https://www.intouch.org/read/blog/12-lessons-from-adveristy (Used by permission. Taken from https://www.intouch.org/)
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