There is beauty in this struggle because I find that my hope is in you! Therefore, I will rejoice in my suffering and in this pain. For you Lord are faithful and working everything out for my/our good. You are producing a godly character in me/in us!
Amazingly, one of the clearest evidences of the believer’s security has to do with tribulations, or, more specifically, the believer’s attitude toward them. Filled with peace and hope, he can “glory in tribulations.” He can do so, Paul writes, because he has learned a lesson no unbeliever can grasp—that tribulations are merely a tool in God’s hands for his good. “Christians rejoice in suffering because of what they know about it,” Dr. James M. Boice explains. “God uses our troubles, trials, and tribulations to form Christian character.”
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