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General 1 Answer. This next reason is not going to be a very popular reason for many Christians — but it is a very powerful reason nonetheless — and it is all for our own good and benefit. The second main reason God will allow different kinds of trials and tribulations to come our way in this life is for our own sanctification in Him. God wants to make us into a better and more holy people. He wants to transform us into the express image of His Son Jesus Christ. He wants to consecrate and set us apart unto Himself.
Some of the verses I will list below are very extreme, but very powerful. In the wording of some of these verses are some very profound and powerful revelation being given to us by the Lord as to why He is allowing some of these storm clouds to come our way in the first place.
A perfect example of this type of sanctification in action has to be with some of our soldiers who are returning back home from our war in Iraq, with many of them coming back home with some very severe injuries.
Some have literally lost arms and legs. I just recently saw two of them interviewed on TV. When asked if they were bitter and mad as a result of the serious injuries they both had received, both of them responded back with some incredible statements. Both of them said that the serious injuries they had sustained actually helped them to become better people. The one girl interviewed said before she had received her serious injuries, that she was a very judgmental and critical person.
They both had taken too much of their lives for granted and really did not appreciate the little things of this life. After sustaining these types of serious injuries, both of them said they are now much more appreciative of every little thing in their lives. They now no longer take their lives for granted like they used too, and they now see where their priorities should all be set at. They now see what is most important in this life. They now have a fuller and deeper appreciation of the value and sanctity of human life, and they will never again take for granted what time they still have left down here to do something very meaningful and purposeful with their lives.
Instead of letting their serious injuries totally crush and destroy their personal lives with what little time they still have left down here, they are both using their personal trials and tribulations as a spring board to become much better people — not only for themselves, but for their families and friends, and for the goals and aspirations they want to pursue from this point on.
Adversity has a real way of humbling you. For those who are operating in too much pride, severe adversity has a way of knocking most of it right out of you.
This is why God will allow a certain amount of trials and tribulations to come our way in this life. These trials and tribulations will either make you or break you in your own personal walk with the Lord. Put someone through the fires of a real testing and you will find out very quickly what they are really made of. Some people make their greatest strides in spiritual growth in the middle of these types of severe storm clouds.
There is something about severe adversity that will either cause you to spiritually grow and mature in your walk with the Lord very quickly, or it will cause you to quit and throw in the towel on both Him and with what He wants to do with the rest of your life. Here are some of the positive qualities that can literally be burned and molded into your personality as a result of going through some severe storm clouds:. In addition to being able to mold and burn these kinds of positive qualities into your personality, trials and tribulations can also serve to burn out some of the negative qualities the Lord really does not want operating in your personality such as:.
Again, I know this is not a real popular piece of revelation being given to us by the Lord, but as you will see in the Scripture verses I will list below, this is one of the main reasons that God will allow a certain amount of adversity to come our way in this life from time to time.
The third main reason why God will allow a certain amount of trials and tribulations to come our way in this life is for the express purpose of testing our faith levels in Him.
He said from great fights will come great faith. In other words, you cannot develop great faith in the Lord unless you first have had your faith tested and developed with some great fights. This is one of the ways that God will use to help increase your faith levels in Him — by sometimes having you go through some severe trials and tribulations.
These trials and tribulations are thus being allowed by the Lord to come your way to see if you will hold fast to Him, to see if you will keep your faith in Him no matter how bleak and hopeless things may look to you in the natural. I believe there is something very profound that is occurring with all of this that many Christians are not fully aware of. God is not testing our faith levels in Him just to be playing some kind of sadistic game with us.
There is a very definite, specific reason that He will be doing this with each and every one of us from time to time. Again, it is absolutely imperative that each Christian get a firm and solid grip on why God will be testing each one of us out from time to time. If you can fully grasp what I am about to tell you, and learn how to ground on this reason when you do have to face any kind of storm cloud — it will not only help to get you through your time of testing in one piece, but it will also help to keep your faith levels operating at the same levels as they were before the storm cloud had arrived, and from there, possibly help increase your faith to higher levels as a result of making it through the storm cloud with some kind of victory or deliverance.
Here is what I believe is occurring behind the scenes in the spiritual realm when God does decide to test our faith in Him from time to time:.
The first class of beings that God created before He created the human race was the angelic host. In this article, I give you several verses from the Old Testament that give us partial information and knowledge as to what had occurred to get Satan and one third of the angelic host cast right out of heaven.
Long story short, Lucifer was apparently given quite of bit of wealth and prosperity from the Lord, and then over a certain period of time it all literally went right to his head. Pride and major stupidity eventually entered into him and he then tried to literally exalt his own personal throne above God Almighty Himself. Once he got to this kind of point of no return with the Lord, that was going to be it. God pulled the plug, and cast him and one third of the other angels who were willing to follow him in this direct open rebellion right out of heaven with no chance of ever being able to make it back in again.
Satan and one third of the angels who were willing to follow him are now lost forever and will eventually spend the rest of their eternal lives in the Lake of Fire and Brimstone after the millennial rule of Jesus has passed from this earth. What is most amazing about their story is that they were all living up in this perfect heaven direct with the Lord.
They were all created equal and good in the eyes of God, and they were all given an equal chance to make good in this perfect heavenly environment with the Lord. There were no other corrupting influences tempting Lucifer or any of these other angels when they were first set upon this perfect heavenly environment in which to live, walk, and work in. Lucifer was the first one to obviously go bad, and he somehow managed to convince one third of the rest of the angelic host to follow his insane plan to try and exalt his own personal throne above the throne of God Almighty Himself.
Sometime after the fall of Satan from heaven, God obviously made a decision to create another class of beings — the human race. But instead of giving us the same chance as He gave Satan and one third of the angels to be able to live up in heaven like they were all given, God ends up creating another place for the human race to be born into and that is our earth.
God first starts off by setting Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. But when they proved they could not abide by His one, simple, little command to stay off one, simple, little tree, God is then forced to cast them out of this perfect garden, and now our earth becomes cursed as a result of their one sin and transgression against Him. What this now means is that the rest of the human race has to be born into this fallen and cursed world before we can make it into heaven.
We are not given the same chance as Satan and one third of these angels were given. Because He knew a certain percentage of mankind would eventually fall and rebel against Him just like a third of His angels eventually did.
And He simply was not going to have this same type of scenario repeat itself once again up in heaven. Another thing is we should never test God. God is making you more humble. So to keep me from becoming proud, I was given a thorn in my flesh , a messenger from Satan to torment me and keep me from becoming proud. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
For what children are not disciplined by their father? If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all. Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live! They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness.
No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. The Lord corrects those he loves, just as parents correct the child they delight in. Happy is the person who finds wisdom, the one who gets understanding.
So you can become more dependent on the Lord. My power works best in weakness. For when I am weak, then I am strong. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing. God wants to spend time with you, but you lost your first love.
I know you do not put up with the false teachings of evil people. You have tested those who say they are apostles but really are not, and you found they are liars. You have patience and have suffered troubles for my name and have not given up. But I have this against you: You have left the love you had in the beginning. So remember where you were before you fell. Change your hearts and do what you did at first.
If you do not change, I will come to you and will take away your lampstand from its place. The Lord is the shade that protects you from the sun. The sun cannot hurt you during the day, and the moon cannot hurt you at night. The Lord will protect you from all dangers; he will guard your life.
The Lord will guard you as you come and go, both now and forever. He sits on his throne to judge, and he will judge the world in fairness; he will decide what is fair for the nations. The Lord defends those who suffer; he defends them in times of trouble. Those who know the Lord trust him, because he will not leave those who come to him.
Trust him, and he will help you. So we can share in the sufferings of Christ. But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or thief or any other kind of criminal, or even as a meddler. However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer.
And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort. It helps us grow as believers and become more like Christ. They are the people he called, because that was his plan.
God knew them before he made the world, and he chose them to be like his Son so that Jesus would be the firstborn of many brothers and sisters. It helps with developing character. You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Trials help to build our faith in the Lord.
Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete , not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.
And earth has nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Those who are far from you will perish; you destroy all who are unfaithful to you. But as for me, it is good to be near God.
I have made the Sovereign Lord my refuge; I will tell of all your deeds. None can compare with you; were I to speak and tell of your deeds, they would be too many to declare. My mouth will tell of your righteous deeds, of your saving acts all day long — though I know not how to relate them all.
You can help someone because you have been in that situation. Throwing around Scriptures will be hard to understand for someone who is grieving, but you can comfort them because you have been through the same thing and through the pain you trusted in God. Trials give us a greater reward in Heaven. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
To show us sin in our lives. We should never deceive ourselves and try to hide our sins from God, which is impossible. Your arrows have pierced me, and your hand has come down on me. Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; there is no soundness in my bones because of my sin.
My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear. My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly. I am bowed down and brought very low; all day long I go about mourning. My back is filled with searing pain; there is no health in my body. I am feeble and utterly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart. All my longings lie open before you, Lord; my sighing is not hidden from you. My heart pounds, my strength fails me; even the light has gone from my eyes.
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