glad for trouble

We are glad for our troubles also. We know that troubles help us learn not to give up. When we have learned not to give up, it shows we have stood the test. When we have stood the test, it gives us hope.

- Romans 5:3-4 (NLV)

 

It’s all good.

We hear that a lot, don’t we?

I often look at different versions of a verse when choosing for my “daily bread”. 
The New King James version reads: And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope.

And the New Living Translation says: We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation.
The words “problems and trials” and “troubles” and “we have stood the test” but “perseverance” is huge, and it is not a synonym for “endurance”.

OK – back to the verse.

It is all good.

We really go through some craziness in this life, but somehow, it all works out, we keep going.

Everything we go through that threatens to take us down, God is going to work something good out of it.

No, I don’t always understand it.

What “good” can come out of someone dying?

What “good” can come out of losing a job, a home, a marriage?

I don’t have the answer, but I do know that if we hang in there and trust God, we will find out.

And as we hang in there, we learn things like patience, character, and above all, hope.

Without hope, we have nothing.

   

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