Getting through a trial?

[Orange_County_Chopper]

I just need some advice, specifically from Reformed brothers & sisters on how to make it through a trial. Just going through some financial problems that I don't know how I will solve it. I have been praying and reading Scripture. Any testimonies on people who have made it through to the other side of their own trials would be great too, thanks.

 

[twin1954]

Having been through many trials I have learned that most of them are to wean you away from this world. Being in construction for most of my life I went from feast to famine quite often. I have found through much experience that things are never as bad as you think or imagine they are. I have come through each difficulty stronger and more prepared than I was before. It taught me to be more frugal when I had money and now I live without any real debt but my home and my wife and I are comfortable on the meager incomes that we have. We no longer seek the things of this world because there isn't any of it that lasts. Nothing of this world will last but is destined to be burned. Whatever you hold too tightly of this world God will take from you if you are His. Whether it is your job, your home, your wife or children even He will take if you put them ahead of Him. He will wean you from desiring this world and whatever it has that holds you.

No relationship, whether it be with our wives and children, father and mother, brothers and sisters is lasting if it isn't a spiritual relationship in Christ. Our wives, children, fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters will all be separated from us in the everlasting destruction of damnation unless we are united to them in Christ.

Don't be too shaken by your situation in this world. If you are His He knows all you need and provides it with love and grace. The only thing that lasts is that which cannot be shaken.

Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
(Heb 12:26-28)

 

[Orange_County_Chopper]

Thank you brother, your words really helped me.

 

[file13]

I don't have any good advice for ya brother other than keep on singing Peace Like a River. Our Father always has a plan and will always work things out in His own way and in His own time. Sometimes even in the strangest ways. For example, we were in ground central for the recent hail storms here in North Texas. Completely ruined our roof and broke 9 windows. Our mortgage insurance tax rate had already gone up and so this was the last thing we needed. But it turns out, not only did we get the house fixed with no deductible (by the grace of God), but we always learned we could refinance to a lower fixed mortgage that would save us literally hundreds a month...and at no cost to us. If He can use a hail storm to help us financially (and who knows what else He had planned with this storm beyond our family), He can use anything. But even if He dosen't, just remember, "it is well."

It is well (the story behind the famous hymn) performed by Colin Battersby - YouTube

 

[Orange_County_Chopper]

It is funny the different views that other so called Christian denominations have, where some advocate and promote that God wants you to be wealthy.

 

[JM]

The best devotional, experimental commentary on trial and suffering...The Trial of Job by Elder Silas Durand.