Monday, May 28, 2018
Stubbornness Impedes Growth
Trials do not make the man, they reveal the man! God wants us to learn what is really inside to confess and be cleansed. Without confession there is no cleansing or growing. Many people remain spiritual infants because they are too stubborn to learn.
What Comes Out is the Real Us!
Trials don't make the man, they reveal what is already inside. No one makes someone rage they choose that reaction when they are controlled by their emotion.
Those who are calm and joyful on the inside never feel a need to rage, they know God is in control.
When a person's initial reaction is to rage at a challenge, we know there is anger that dwells in the heart all the time.
No man of God keeps anger festering continually ready to emerge at the slightest provocation. Those who lose control easily, often accuse others of causing them to do it. Or lie and say the others are the one's who are angry. A strange phenomena but I have seen this for myself.
The truth is, nothing ruffles the godly man, they see a purpose in everything, even a challenge can do them good. When we are challenged we can rethink our belief or we can further solidify it by revisiting our reasons for it.
Proverbs 22:24 "24 Do not associate with a man given to anger; Or go with a hot-tempered man, 25 Or you will learn his ways And find a snare for yourself."
Those who are calm and joyful on the inside never feel a need to rage, they know God is in control.
When a person's initial reaction is to rage at a challenge, we know there is anger that dwells in the heart all the time.
No man of God keeps anger festering continually ready to emerge at the slightest provocation. Those who lose control easily, often accuse others of causing them to do it. Or lie and say the others are the one's who are angry. A strange phenomena but I have seen this for myself.
The truth is, nothing ruffles the godly man, they see a purpose in everything, even a challenge can do them good. When we are challenged we can rethink our belief or we can further solidify it by revisiting our reasons for it.
Proverbs 22:24 "24 Do not associate with a man given to anger; Or go with a hot-tempered man, 25 Or you will learn his ways And find a snare for yourself."
"Trials Don't Make a Man, They Reveal Him"
Luke 8:24-25
They came to Jesus and woke Him up, saying, "Master, Master, we are perishing!" And He got up and rebuked the wind and the surging waves, and they stopped, and it became calm. And He said to them, "Where is your faith?" They were fearful and amazed, saying to one another, "Who then is this, that He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him?"
In the case of Job, God allowed the devil to harm him, the devil could not do it without God's permission. When the devil does harm to it, then God has allowed it for our training and sometimes discipline.
Next time we are tempted to blame the devil for our trials, its sort of like saying God had no control over it.
James 1:2-8
Profiting from Trials
"2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces [a]patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be [b]perfect and complete, lacking nothing. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways."
As someone once said, I don't remember who; "trials don't make a man, they reveal him."
They came to Jesus and woke Him up, saying, "Master, Master, we are perishing!" And He got up and rebuked the wind and the surging waves, and they stopped, and it became calm. And He said to them, "Where is your faith?" They were fearful and amazed, saying to one another, "Who then is this, that He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him?"
In the case of Job, God allowed the devil to harm him, the devil could not do it without God's permission. When the devil does harm to it, then God has allowed it for our training and sometimes discipline.
Next time we are tempted to blame the devil for our trials, its sort of like saying God had no control over it.
James 1:2-8
Profiting from Trials
"2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces [a]patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be [b]perfect and complete, lacking nothing. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways."
As someone once said, I don't remember who; "trials don't make a man, they reveal him."
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