14 Bible Verses About Hardships and Trials, and What God Promises in Them



  • Refining separates the metal from what was mixed into it and adds nothing, which is a narrow promise.
  • Pedro elige el oro, la sustancia más duradera que conocían sus lectores, y señala que tampoco dura.
  • Pablo llama a su aguijón un mensajero de Satanás, por lo que no pensaba que toda aflicción viniera de la mano de Dios.
  • Romanos 8:28 dice que Dios obra en todas las cosas, lo cual no es la frase "todas las cosas son buenas".
  • Job’s friends spend most of the book explaining his suffering and are told at the end that they had not spoken rightly.

The main image Scripture uses for a hard season is refining, and it promises less than it is usually made to promise. A crucible for silver, a furnace for gold, faith tested by fire. Refining separates the metal from what was mixed into it and adds nothing to it. Proverbs 17:3 keeps to that: the crucible and the furnace test, and the Lord tests the heart. Scripture also records suffering it declines to explain. Paul calls his own thorn a…

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