WHY ME ? - THE PURPOSE OF LIFE - CRISIS REVEALS CHARACTER

Why me ? Why did this happen to me ? Have you ever asked that question or heard someone ask that question ? Sometimes there are circumstances that are beyond our control and we feel helpless because of it. It's even easy to forget that we are not the first nor are we the only ones to ever pass through whatever the experience is that we are going through. A Christian has the privilege of understanding why God allows trials in his or her life.

  It is because God is leading them that these things come upon them. Trials and obstacles are the Lord's chosen methods of discipline and His appointed conditions of success. He who reads the hearts of men knows their characters better than they themselves know them. He sees that some have powers and susceptibilities which, rightly directed, might be used in the advancement of His work. In His providence He brings these persons into different positions and varied circumstances that they may discover in their character the defects which have been concealed from their own knowledge. He gives them opportunity to correct these defects and to fit themselves for His service. Often He permits the fires of affliction to assail them that they may be purified. 

Trials come to us all to lead us to investigate our hearts, to see if they are purified from all that defiles. 

It is in mercy that the Lord reveals to men their hidden defects. He would have them critically examine the complicated emotions and motives of their own hearts, and detect that which is wrong, and modify their dispositions and refine their manners. God would have His servants become acquainted with their own hearts. In order to bring to them a true knowledge of their condition, He permits the fire of affliction to assail them, so that they may be purified. The trials of life are God's workmen to remove the impurities, infirmities, and roughness from our characters, and fit them for the society of pure, heavenly angels in glory. 

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1 Peter 1:7, 4:12,13/James 1:12/Revelation 3:18/2 Timothy 2:3/Romans 5:3/Mark 13:20,21/1 Peter 5:10

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