God's discipline produces in us qualities that allow us to be happy
Dr. Roberto Miranda
(Audio: Spanish)
SUMMARY: God uses the difficulties, struggles, and trials in our lives to form the character of Jesus Christ in us. His discipline produces in us qualities that allow us to be happy and make good decisions. Sometimes, God deliberately allows negative experiences to produce a fruit of life and blessing that pleases Him. The desert is a good place to be because it teaches us many things and helps us get closer to God. Israel spent 40 years in the desert, but God used it to do things in their town. He made them eat manna, a simple meal, and go through a forced fast to break their sensual and gluttonous nature. Similarly, sometimes God puts us in a smooth process and only gives us the minimum we need to live to train and discipline us. In all of this, God's greatest purpose is to form in us the character of Jesus Christ so that we can glorify Him and bless others.
Tests allow us to get to know ourselves better, and bring to light things that may be affecting us without our knowledge. It is important to know ourselves in order to have control over our behavior and not let past traumas control us. God uses trials to teach us powerful spiritual lessons and to teach us to live by faith, ultimately leading us to a deeper understanding and relationship with Him. It is important to cultivate a healthy fear and reverence for God, and to walk humbly before Him. After times of testing and trial, God brings times of restoration, rest, and abundance.
After going through trials and difficulties, God blesses us with times of restoration, celebration, and abundance. We should not avoid trials, but welcome them as they produce patience and other virtues in us. Let us remember to thank God and trust in His love during difficult times. May God bless us and renew our strength. Amen.
Tests allow us to get to know ourselves better, and bring to light things that may be affecting us without our knowledge. It is important to know ourselves in order to have control over our behavior and not let past traumas control us. God uses trials to teach us powerful spiritual lessons and to teach us to live by faith, ultimately leading us to a deeper understanding and relationship with Him. It is important to cultivate a healthy fear and reverence for God, and to walk humbly before Him. After times of testing and trial, God brings times of restoration, rest, and abundance.
After going through trials and difficulties, God blesses us with times of restoration, celebration, and abundance. We should not avoid trials, but welcome them as they produce patience and other virtues in us. Let us remember to thank God and trust in His love during difficult times. May God bless us and renew our strength. Amen.
We have been talking about the tribulations in life, the trials, the difficulties, the failures, the struggles of life and how these things in the hands of God and through the eyes of faith, can work out for our good and can being a part of God's work in our lives, how God can use past hurts, past sufferings, hurts, and actually if we can look at it through God's eyes, we can squeeze through a tiny crack and into the other side and discover that those things can be for our blessing and our edification. And we have seen different passages where I think we can verify that God sometimes deliberately, intentionally uses certain life experiences to provoke changes in us, transformations that bring us closer to being like Christ, they form our character, they instill in us those qualities that he wants us to have.
I was saying some time ago that I believe that God's greatest purpose is not to give us money, nor to give us a comfortable life, nor to give us the profession we want or whatever, but to form in us the character of Jesus Christ, that we glorify him through him being like his Son and that he can also use us then, as we have that character of Jesus that he can use us as an instrument to bless others, even when the character of Christ is formed in us, by means of the chisel, the sculptor blows from God, we can then be happier ourselves.
I was saying some time ago that I believe that God's greatest purpose is not to give us money, nor to give us a comfortable life, nor to give us the profession we want or whatever, but to form in us the character of Jesus Christ, that we glorify him through him being like his Son and that he can also use us then, as we have that character of Jesus that he can use us as an instrument to bless others, even when the character of Christ is formed in us, by means of the chisel, the sculptor blows from God, we can then be happier ourselves.
