Bible Study

*Just for your thoughts*


*The Book of Job
Bible Study – 27

“But He knows the way that I take; when He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.”

Job 23:10
Trials come to every child of God. God allows trials. Any faith that has never been tested is not genuine faith.
A trial is a test. If we are to succeed in the test of trials, we must pass through them. Every believer faces different kinds of trials. God alone determines the measure of each trial.
No trial can simply be classified as “very severe” or “very easy.” God permits trials according to the spiritual capacity of the one being tested.
The trials we face in the early stages of our Christian life are one kind. The trials we encounter after we have matured spiritually are another kind. The trials we experience in the final stage of our Christian walk are yet another kind. It is rare for us to face the same kind of trials throughout every stage of life. The intensity and duration of trials vary from one believer to another.
God will never allow us to be tested beyond our ability to endure.
When we face trials in our lives, we must confront them with courage. We should never retreat in fear. We should never compromise. We must never fall from a life of holiness.
At this point, Job declares for the first time that he is being tested by God. Until now, he had been pleading with God to hear and judge his case. But now he confidently declares that he will be victorious in the trial that God has allowed. This is a remarkable change.
Whenever trials come, we must first make sure of one thing: Are these trials the result of our sins, our disobedience, or something else? We must examine ourselves honestly before God.
If we have walked blamelessly before the Lord and yet trials come, we should understand that the Lord is using those trials to refine us into pure gold.
The Apostle Peter speaks very clearly about the testing of our faith:
“These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.”

1 Peter 1:7
Our spiritual life is like gold.
*Gold never fears the fire.*
Some believers are burned up by trials. Others are purified and become pure gold through their trials.
*The furnace can only make the gold purer and brighter.*
*Our attitude toward trials determines our success or failure.*
*The attitude toward the Word of God and the will of God will determine our success in the test.*
The more we surrender ourselves to the will of God and live filled with His Word, the greater victory we will experience in our trials.
A person who obeys the Word of God and feeds on it daily will never be defeated by trials. Likewise, the one who submits to the will of God will never turn back.
These are the two essential keys to enduring trials:
Let us surrender to the will of God.

*Let us live filled with the Word of God* .