Grace Baptist Church of Arlington

The Christian life is filled with trials, challenges, and suffering.  The Scriptures do not spend a great deal of time focusing on the trials themselves.  They do occasionally spend some time reflecting on the quality and particular challenges of trials, but more than anything else, they focus in on a believer’s reaction to the trial or what a believer’s reaction to a trial should be.  I’ve been reading Timothy S. Lane and Paul David Tripp’s book How People Change, and in the book they offer a few questions that might help you reflect well on your own trials.  Here are the questions (p.92-93):

1. What is your situation?
2. How do you react?  What do you want and believe?
3. Who is God and what does he say and do in Christ?
4. How is God calling me to seek him in repentance and faith?

These questions can be used to help you reflect on your trials, but they can also be used in your relationships with other Christians.  When your brother or sister in Christ shares with you particular challenges or trials, you may want to consider asking them these questions in order to help them see God’s work in their life and trials.

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