Both Small & Big Trials (TMF:1898)

Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Peace to Live By: Both Small & Big Trials (TMF:1898) - Daniel Litton
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       What are some common examples of trials? Well, here’s some on the smaller scale. The car’s tire is flat, the car won’t start, our friend is mad at us, the wife is upset and won’t talk, the dog is sick, the cat is clawing people, a ticket for speeding, a fine for some trash-related incident. What are some larger trials? Our friend decides she doesn’t want to be friends anymore, the husband leaves home, the wife is having an affair, the cat passes away, the dog has a terminal illness, a person is thrown behind bars, a person is fired from their job of ten years. Is God the one who tests us? I heard Pastor Rick Warren talk about this once. He said it’s not God who causes bad things to happen. We can look at Job for an example from Scripture that God actually isn’t the one who causes trials. If you read Job chapter 1, you see that it is really Satan who wants to cause harm to Job, not God. God certainly allowed him to do so, remember? But he told Satan he couldn’t take Job’s life. God was monitoring and watching the whole thing.