October 1, 2025 – Like It Or Not, We Need Trials

Like It Or Not, We Need Trials

October 1, 2025

KEY FROM GOD’S WORD:

James 1:3
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

THOUGHTS ON GOD’S WORD:

     One Sunday morning in our church service, I spoke on patience. I was saying we should all be more patient with one another and the burdens they bear. I spoke of how trials will help us work on our patience if we listen to God during the trial. I also mentioned how we should pray for one another. That is all Biblical, right?

     With the morning service over, I headed home to get some lunch and prepare for our afternoon baptismal service. At the time, we did not have a baptistery in our church, so we would go to another church during the cold months for baptismal services. When I got home, I found my finished basement had about 1 inch of standing water in most of it. Our sump pump had quit working. I quickly called a friend who knew about plumbing, and he and I got the water pretty much cleaned up and the pump temporarily working again. When I joined the church service that afternoon, I half-jokingly asked them, “Which one of you yahoos decided to pray for the Pastor to have more patience? Well, whoever you are, cut it out.” Everyone laughed.

     Since then, when I have heard people praying, “God, please give me patience,” I often wondered what might be coming their way to help them gain patience. I have long stopped praying for patience. My life has enough trials in it to help me learn patience daily. I now pray for peace.

CARRYING THAT THOUGHT THROUGH THE DAY:

    Today, as the burdens of life begin to bear upon you, think back on things you do now with ease that once were trials in your life. Walking was a trial when you were one year old, and driving when you were sixteen. Things that once seemed almost impossible, trials of the past, you now do with ease. The trials you face today may also be the very things that make you a much better Christian tomorrow.

What might you be dealing with today
that God can use to make you stronger in the days to come?

IF YOU ARE JOURNALING:

Ask yourself, what are MY THOUGHTS concerning this Passage, and today’s Devotion?

Do I find within this reading a CHALLENGE for my life?

What are one or two things I WILL DO today or this week to accept that CHALLENGE?

  

GOD TALKING TO ME: October 1, 2025

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING
^{(O.T.-1,   N.T. & PS.-2,   Prov. – Monthly)}
Jeremiah 30, 31 / Psalm 79
Proverbs 1 / James 1, 2

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
Song of So. 1-3  /  Gal. 5