Come Let us return to the Lord – 06

The true purpose of trials and testing is not so that I might receive certain material blessing. A father who first tortures before he gives is no better than a sadist.

I may not have found the whole purpose for trials and tests, but I dare say it has something to do with us becoming more like our Father.

Scripture says that Jesus Christ was perfected through the things he suffered. Perhaps, it is God’s intention that I become as He is through the things I will suffer.

Perhaps through them, I’ll understand His enduring and unyielding love to wards me and all others.
It therefore means that there are certain sufferings I must joyously run into. I remember Paul. He was warned that He would be arrested in Jerusalem but yet He continued because He knew it was God’s way of filling in Paul’s body the sufferings of Christ.

Lord, save me from myself
I want to run to the battle