Waiting Through Trials

Waiting on God can be difficult. When we are in the middle of our struggles, when all hope is lost, we want immediate relief. It’s hard to trust God’s purposes in the pain we now experience. 

Job is often looked at as someone with patient endurance. He remained faithful to God even after he lost everything including his health. He put up with his critical friends not understanding why so much calamity had fallen on him. Instead he chose to trust God, not their words.

In the end, “The LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning (Job 42:12, NASB).” True, but it took more than 40 chapters to get to that point. Some of us are still in the first few chapters of trials and the pain is still fresh. Others are further along the difficult journey. Either way your endurance will strengthen your faith if you let it. You will find blessing in the later days of your journey if you lean on God.

(NASB) 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight. – Proberbs 3:5-6, NASB

4 thoughts on “Waiting Through Trials

  1. “Either way your endurance will strengthen your faith if you let it.”

    Job’s friends and even his wife weren’t much help to him, but they were only human. Wisely, Job looked to God, above all else, to explain his situation.

    He let endurance and resilience strengthen his faith. That’s a good combination and a fresh way to see the trials of Job.

    Thank you, brother Chris. 🙏I am praying on for you and your family.

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