Trials, Part Three

Trials come from many sources and last for various periods of time. Sometimes our trials are physical, sometimes chronic, even leading eventually to death,  and other times remediable with different kinds of treatment. Sometimes the trials are experienced by those we love, and we share their pain however long it lasts. Sometimes the trials come at the hands of others. These are especially hard when they come from those we care for. David knew something of this, as the Psalms show. The Lord Jesus Christ knew this first hand also, as the Gospels reveal.

God's Word is our source of comfort in all these instances: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our afflictions so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God," as Paul states in 2 Corinthians 1:3-4.

However much I may suffer
From trials of various kinds,
Temptations from various directions,
However dire a day may seem,
When I think of what my Savior
Lived through and
Died for,
Nothing is so hard to bear if
Being borne by One
Whose burden is easy,
Whose yoke is light.
Suffering brings for us perspective
Seen in the light of Scripture,
At least for me.