Trials equals good

 It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes. (Psalm 119:71 ESV)

“Trials equals good.” Understanding and believing this simple equation can make your life richer, more meaningful, and happier.

It makes all the difference in the world whether you fear problems and challenges, expecting the worst to happen, or if you face obstacles bravely and full of faith, anticipating the good that the Lord will bring out of them and the strength of spirit you will gain.

Naturally we wonder why “bad” things happen to us. God always has a purpose [in what He allows to happen in our lives], although it is not always revealed immediately.

The Lord sometimes uses sickness, problems, and troubles to cause us to draw closer to Him and rely more on Him. Otherwise we would have a tendency to just rock along.

But always remember that whatever God allows, He allows it in love. “All things work together for good to those who love the Lord.” God is not going to let anything happen to you, His child who loves Him, except what can work together for your good.

Even though you may have many afflictions or difficulties, as the verse says above, He will deliver you out of them all, no matter how many or what! —DBB [1]

No physician ever weighed out medicine to his patient with half so much care and exactness as God weighs out to us every trial. Not one grain too much does He ever permit to be placed on the scale. —Henry Ward Beecher

[1] Anchor Hard Places