From the CANON on this blog:
Solutions
1. God
is omnipotent and therefore can solve any problem. He may choose to use the solutions listed
below, but he often provides in ways you could have never imagined. The poor should cry out to God for help,
rather than depending on Baal.
From today’s devotional:
It doesn’t seem
fair, does it? Paul spent the second half of his life serving Christ, and yet
he experienced continual suffering. Why would God let one of His most faithful
servants go through so much pain? This isn’t a question just about Paul; it’s
an issue we face today. In our minds, the Lord should protect His loyal
followers from hardships, but He doesn’t necessarily do so.
Maybe our reasoning
is backwards. We think faithful Christians don’t deserve to suffer, but from
God’s perspective, suffering is what produces faithful Christians. If we all
had lives of ease without opposition, trials, or pain, we’d never really know
God, because we’d never need Him. Like it or not, adversity teaches us more
about the Lord than simply reading the Bible ever will.
I’m not saying we
don’t need to know Scripture; that’s our foundation for faith. But if what we
believe is never tested by adversity, it remains head knowledge. How will we
ever know that God can be trusted in the midst of trouble if we’ve never been
challenged by hardship? The Lord gives us opportunities to apply scriptural
truths to the difficulties facing us, and in the process, we find Him faithful.
For example, how would Paul ever have known the strength of Christ if he had
never been weakened by persecution, pain, and adversity?
Depending on your
response, trials can be God’s greatest means of building faith or an avenue to
discouragement and self-pity. If you’ll believe what Scripture says and apply
its principles to your situation, your trust in God will grow, and your faith
will be strengthened through adversity.
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