Fruitful Trials
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What do the hard times and difficulties in your life accomplish? What kinds of fruitfulness do trials inadvertently produce in your life?
As difficult as certain times and circumstances can be in our lives, trials and the testing of our faith can produce the fruit of endurance, patience, and steadfastness in our life.
James, the half brother of Jesus, talked about how we are to view our trials in his letter, when he wrote, “Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.” (James 1: 2-3, ESV).
When we look at our trials differently, with a new perspective, we can be joyful in our hardships, recognizing the benefits in our faithfulness as we persevere.
May we experience fruitfulness in our trials as we trust God to help us to endure our hardships and to gain perseverance.
A Collect for the Wednesday of Easter Week: “O God, whose blessed Son made himself known to his disciples in the breaking of bread: Open the eyes of our faith, that we may behold him in the fullness of his redeeming work; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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