Lets take a look at scriptures in Psalm 73 and Romans 8.
There will be times on our Christian walk where we will make mistakes. Asaph acknowledges this in this Psalm. But the good news is that it says in Lamentations God renews his mercies every morning. Even though we fail from time to time God gives us the grace to start a new every morning and to try again and he rests on our weaknesses to help make us better. So if you have stumbled recently take heart, don’t give up God will help us and will never leave us or forsake us.
Next up a scripture from Romans 8.
The Christian walk is not a bed of roses, sometimes we will be required to do challenging things for the Lord as he will’s it for our lives. When challenges come our way suffering will likely accompany these challenges. For example, it could be that you have been assigned to help a person in your walk, an example could be someone who has an addiction.
When helping someone with an addiction they may hurt you, steel from you and can be burdensome, but the Lord has put you in their pathway to help them, and there maybe a certain level of suffering that comes in helping that person, but in time they may well turn the corner and get off of the addiction they have, where God will get great glory in transforming a life bringing lasting fruit showing people with God all addictions can be broken.
The good news is this. At the end of a trial you will always have the victory in Jesus through his resurrection, when he rose again 3 days after his death on the cross. Whatever the challenge and suffering you have you can expect the victory, so persevere and know that one day we will be with Jesus for eternity and our sufferings here will only be a blink of an eye compared with eternity.
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