Growing Faith and Non-Growing Trials

No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind……………………..He will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. 1 Corinthians 10:13

Trials and sufferings will remain same forever it will neither grow nor evolve to the next stage. They can’t grow any bigger but our faith can. The more trials and sufferings we face the more matured and stronger Christians we become.  We have promise in the Bible that God will never allow us to be tested beyond what we are able to handle and in all things will provide a way out of the test (1 Corinthians 10:13). This does not mean He will remove the trial from us. Rather, He will provide us the “way out” to reach the other side of it by His grace and power that we may become stronger and more matured Christians.

In 1924, two climbers were part of an expedition that set out to conquer Mount Everest. As far as is known, they never reached the summit; and they never returned. Somewhere on that gigantic mountain they were overpowered by the elements and died. After the failure of the expedition, the rest of the party returned home. Addressing a meeting in London, one of those who returned described the ill-fated adventure. He then turned to a huge photograph of Mount Everest, mounted on the wall behind him. "Everest," he cried, "we tried to conquer you once, but you overpowered us. We tried to conquer you a second time, but again you were too much for us. But, Everest, I want you to know that we are going to conquer you, for you can't grow any bigger, and we can!" (Gene Getz Doing Your Part, Regal: 1984, 152-3). There is no valley so dark that His light cannot prevail, no affliction so grievous that He cannot prevent. Through all our trails and sufferings God enables us and supports us, and in the end He will overrule it to our advantage.