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The School of God
When we go through deep trials or great suffering, we need to remember that God is working in our lives for a specific purpose. He knows what He is doing, and it is all done lovingly and with our good in view.
Have you ever said, “Why did this happen to me?” Or, “Lord, why did You allow this in my life?” Trials and afflictions are never easy, but, when they accomplish God’s purposes in our lives, then there is true and lasting blessing.
Things don’t just happen in our lives. They are planned and orchestrated by His hand and with divine wisdom. The writer of Psalm 119 realized this when He wrote, “Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept Thy word” (verse 67). “It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn Thy statutes” (verse 71).
God uses what seem like adverse circumstances to preserve us, protect us, and prepare us. When you read the lives of many of the great men and women of God who were used in mighty ways you often find that they had to pass through incredible hardships to make them fit and useful in His service. These are lessons not learned from a textbook, or Bible school, but in the school of God.
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