Trials

James 1: 2-4.

Trials are experiences that causes difficulty for someone. Trials are of two types; the ones that come to test you to see whether you are what you say you really are and the ones that come to build us up. Does God allow trials to come our way? 🤔🤔 Yes HE can. But why will God allow trials to come our way? When we go through trials we become be stronger. God allows us to undergo trials to train us for where HE is taking us to. God has a place HE has prepared for everyone but HE will not just take us instantly there, there is a series of training we must undergo. If we don't the training we will definitely mess up when we get to the place of honour. Let's take King Saul as an example, he was a young man just looking for his father's sheep when he was anointed as King of Israel. Saul eventually messed up and was removed from the throne and replaced by David who was anointed as King when he was 17 but sat on the throne when he was 30 years old, 13 years of running from Saul, fighting, training. David was trained by God using trials for 13 hard years but that made him able to maintain the throne. So when we pass through trials we should be joyful because it is training for where we are going. For instance, a soldier 

trained for war must not take the training as punishment from his or her superiors but as a way to handle situations at the battlefield. All trials are training in disguise. The more the trials the stronger we get. God uses trials to develop us. Like a video game, level one seems hard at first but when we get to level ten, level one becomes a piece of cake. But if we don't pass through level one we can't get to the higher levels so we should learn what God wants us to learn from a from a trial so we can move up. All we have to do is to be patient and wait on God in the place of trials. Let trials cause you to rely and depend solely on God. Even though we fail, God is still faithful to pick us up if we surrender ourselves to Him. Only God can take us through trials and bring us out because HE will never leave us or forsake us.

                                  - NCC Iju Youth Group Meeting.