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A Season of Testing Is a Sign God Is Asking You to Trust Him More

No one enjoys a season of testing, but throughout the Bible it is made clear that God uses these seasons for our good (James 1:2-4, Romans 5:3-5). One of the primary ways God uses a season of testing and trials is by using the pressures of life to cause us to seek his presence.

For example, in 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 Paul explains that through a season of testing he was actually empowered to trust God more: “Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.  But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

So if you are going through a season of trials and testing, in actuality this is God’s invitation to you to trust him more. For when you are made weak but you trust in Christ through faith, you will then be made strong.