Sometimes I ponder the whys of life. It seems to me I’ve been handed a strange assortment of circumstances with which to contend. I’ve even complained that I’ve not liked the way things were going, and then I stop and look back on my life and see how God has worked and put everything together so beautifully. My life’s been full of challenges God has turned into blessings, and my “Why God?” has turned into a triumphant “Why not!”
Trials
A.B. Simpson
You will have no test of faith that will not fit you to be a blessing if you are obedient to the Lord. I never had a trial but when I got out of the deep river I found some poor pilgrim on the bank that I was able to help by that very experience.
C. S. Lewis
“Thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ” (2 Corinthians 2:14). We often quote verses like this, but we forget that there is no victory without a battle, no testimony without a test and no miracle without an impossible circumstance. God leads us in triumph by leading us into battles, tests and impossibilities!
George Muller
The Lord gives faith, for the very purpose of trying it for the glory of His own name, and for the good of him who has it; and, by the very trial of our faith, we not only obtain blessing to our own souls, by becoming the better acquainted with God, if we hold fast our confidence in Him, but our faith is also, by the exercise, strengthened: and so it comes, that, if we walk with God in any measure of uprightness of heart, the trials of faith will be greater and greater.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is true that we endure trials, but it is just as true that we are delivered out of them. It is true that we have our corruptions, and mournfully do we know this, but it is quite as true that we have an all-sufficient Saviour, who overcomes these corruptions, and delivers us from their dominion.