Jas 1:2 My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into different kinds of temptations, knowing that the trying of your faith works patience. But let patience have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and entire, lacking nothing.
Okay, so we all know the scripture and can sprout it off every time we stub our toe, however how easy is it to live? When you suddenly discover that your business is failing, your marriage is broken, your kids think you suck and you have spent so much time at work that the dog barks at you when you get home, how easy is it to say, "God, You are faithful and true and I will trust in You!" Easy in theory, ne? But it practice? God has put in me a desire to lead people, to walk with His people into a real and living experience of Him, and yet every time I am faced with the hard parts of God's word (things like tried and tested), I run as hard and fast in the opposite direction as possible (like that actually helps)! Remember Jonah? He still had to go through the whole obedience to God thing (and he got there in a really uncomfortable style) despite his fear and desire to run. So I guess the moral of the story is to turn, face God and run toward His goodness and Grace and embrace what He puts before us!
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1Co 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace which was toward me has not been without fruit, but I labored more abundantly than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God with me.
Col 1:29 For which I also labor, striving according to the working of Him who works in me in power.
Eph 3:20 Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
If I look at the scriptures above, and also the history of my life, everytime I tried to do something in my own strength, at very least things, by the grace of God, did not fall apart that badly.
I fall into the trap, often, claiming to be a Christian (Christ follower) and then end up following my own will. When all caves in, you get angry with God, saying "How could God do that to me?"
Over and over again I hear the Bible shouting out "I am your Father, you stand still, I will fight for you (Ex 14v13)" or
"I have died so that you can live free (2Cor 3v17)".
There are not many bad places I have been that I did not put myself in.
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