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Daily Devotional:
1 Corinthians 10:13
Sunday, February 6
God Is Faithful in Trials
KEY VERSE: "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it," 1 Corinthians 10:13.
A trial, remember, is just an opportunity for God to work in our lives. It is the time He, metaphorically speaking, can roll up His sleeves and get to work, honing, polishing, sanding, chipping or molding our rough areas until we conform to the image of Christ. And because we (believers) are in carnal bodies while on this earth, it is not a onetime deal. It must be done over and over again until we cross over into glory. Paul wrote, "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us" (Rom. 8:18). But no trial seems good and fun and pleasant while we are in it, but we do not go through it alone—God is with us.
The early believers suffered many atrocities at the hands of those who hated the newly opened door (Christ) to God. But they did not suffer alone, God was with them. How else could one explain how they could sing and praise God while burning at the stake? Many suffered and many died at the hands of their torturers, but they awoke in Heaven in the presence of Jesus.
REFLECTION: If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified (1 Peter 4:14).
Beverly Barnett
Daily Devotional:
1 Corinthians 10:13
Sunday, February 6
God Is Faithful in Trials
KEY VERSE: "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it," 1 Corinthians 10:13.
A trial, remember, is just an opportunity for God to work in our lives. It is the time He, metaphorically speaking, can roll up His sleeves and get to work, honing, polishing, sanding, chipping or molding our rough areas until we conform to the image of Christ. And because we (believers) are in carnal bodies while on this earth, it is not a onetime deal. It must be done over and over again until we cross over into glory. Paul wrote, "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us" (Rom. 8:18). But no trial seems good and fun and pleasant while we are in it, but we do not go through it alone—God is with us.
The early believers suffered many atrocities at the hands of those who hated the newly opened door (Christ) to God. But they did not suffer alone, God was with them. How else could one explain how they could sing and praise God while burning at the stake? Many suffered and many died at the hands of their torturers, but they awoke in Heaven in the presence of Jesus.
REFLECTION: If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified (1 Peter 4:14).
Beverly Barnett
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