DIAMOND IN THE DIRT II

"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

This is a true story. This lady, as a child, almost lost her parents in a divorce. Nine years later, she was married but lost her husband to death's icy fingers, leaving her with four little children to raise. A couple years later, her mother passed on. After her mother died, she remarried but went through trials with her in-laws. Not long after, her father, brother, and brother-in-law died of cancer. As if that was not enough pain already, she experienced the death of her child to illness. And currently, she also has another sick child. Both her and her husband have been fired on their jobs, twice.

Charles Spurgeon said, "Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of." trials are inevitable in life, God allows it to come your way to build you. With trials, you become wiser. You learn more about yourself and the people surrounding you. Yes, sometimes your trials might seem too much. Yet, know that, God is in it with you.
We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult, and painful than others, but we all go through tribulation. Henry ward Beecher said, "We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things." your lingering experience might not make sense to you now, but One thing is clear, you will come out bigger, and better after this storm. God will step in, before it kills you. Shalom!