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

Christian Pure Team

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Samenvatting

  • Refining separates the metal from what was mixed into it and adds nothing, which is a narrow promise.
  • Peter picks gold, the most durable substance his readers knew, and points out that it does not last either.
  • Paul calls his thorn a messenger of Satan, so he did not think every affliction came from God’s hand.
  • Romans 8:28 says God works in all things, which is not the sentence “all things are good”.
  • 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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Bijbelcitaten zijn afkomstig uit de New International Version.

Paul calls the thorn a messenger of Satan at 2 Corinthians 12:7, and describes his despair at 2 Corinthians 1:8.

Jesus rejects both explanations for the man’s blindness at John 9:3.

God’s verdict on Job’s friends is at Job 42:7.

Het Griekse katartizo at 1 Peter 5:10 is used of mending nets at Matthew 4:21.

Joseph’s account of what his brothers intended is at Genesis 50:20.

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