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As Jesus started on His way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before Him. ‘Good teacher,’ he asked, ’what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ ‘Why do you call Me good?’ Jesus answered. ‘No one is good-except God alone.’
SUFFERING, TRIALS, AND PAIN WILL EITHER
•SHAKE YOUR FAITH.
•PROVE YOUR FAITH.

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith of greater worth than gold…may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus
KEEPING THE FAITH IN THE FIRE
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
As He went along, He saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked Him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ ‘Neither this man nor his parents sinned,’ said Jesus, ‘but this happened so that the work of God might be disp
•EMBRACE GOD’S PEACE IN YOUR PAIN.
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
eirene (i-ray'-nay); peace, quietness, rest.
When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.

GOD IS NOT FAIR
(God) does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities…as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
“God whispers to us in our pleasure, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts to us in our pains; it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” C.S. Lewis