will sufferings and troubles increases faith of believers ?
Will
sufferings and troubles be able to take away the peace believers have with God
and destroy their hope of heaven?
Rom
5:34 And not only so, but we rejoice in tribulations also, knowing that
tribulation produces patient endurance; and a patient endurance, approved character;
and approved character, hope;
Paul
very emphatically says, “no”.
Sufferings
actual increases the hope of believers.
So they can rejoice knowing that troubles
are doing them good.
The
gradual process of transforming suffering into hope is something believers
learn by experience.
It comes step by step in the life
the faith.
Suffering produces the patient endurance and perseverance.
Believers
learn that God enables them to endure troubles and tribulations, that they can
face sufferings and not draw back into unbelief
(Heb
10:35-39 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence
of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God,
ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall
come will come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith: but if any
man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of
them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of
the soul).
They learn that God
is with hem through the worst that can happen and keeps them in the faith
( Rom 8:35-37Who shall
separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or
peril, or sword? As it is written,
For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the
slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are
more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Perseverance
produces character.
Enduring
trials and troubles makes believers better, stronger people, more able to face
such things in the future. And by this process the hope they had when they
first believed increases and becomes even stronger.
will sufferings and troubles increases faith of believers ?
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