Trials May Be Good Afterall.

I bless the Lord for another opportunity to put his word on this blog site. It feels real good to share the word of God, and in truth it comes with it's reward because all that we do for God comes with a reward.
Today, I will trust the Lord to help me send a word of comfort to someone out there going through any form of challenge or trial and feels the end has come. The surprising truth is that the Bible says in James 1:2-4 that we should consider it pure joy, whenever we face trials of many kinds, because we know that the testing of our faith develops perseverance which must finish its work so that we may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
The passage in James 1:2-4 and another passage I will share later shows us a beautiful reason that brings out a meaning from the trials we have to go through at the stages of our lives. There must be a rewarding end to the trials you are going through at the moment for James to implore us to consider it pure joy and nothing else but joy to be facing those trials and challenges.
I totally agree that facing trials is not easy in anyway because I have been through that road over and over again, but yet the Bible says it is a joyful thing to have to face those difficulties of life because it is those who have gone through the process and have learnt to trust God to see them through it that get the reward that accrues to champions.
James says that those trials are designed to produce perseverance in us, which when it has finished its work will make us mature and thus we are complete and lacking nothing. But how do we allow these trials produce perseverance in us? Let us look at another passage of the Bible in Hebrews 12:7-8, 10-11. It says "Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. 
Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness. No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. 
What we are learning from the book of Hebrews 12 is that discipline which comes in the form of hardships, trials and challenges are designed for those whom the Lord loves and desires to train so that they may share in His holiness. The Lord is using your trials and testings and hardships (whatever name you call it) to produce Himself in you. No wonder James will say that we should consider it pure joy to have to go through these trials of many kinds. Painful as those trials may seem, it is God's own way of legitimizing our sonship and it is designed to produce the nature of God in us as we allow ourselves to be trained by them.
The products of this painful training course includes, perseverance, holiness, righteousness and peace to mention a few. It is a disciplinary session that is borne out of God's love for us and even though we feel pains as we go through the training course, God is not having fun at it also, but it is a course that needs to hold for us to attain maturity in godliness.
As parents we don't feel good having to discipline our children because of the love we feel for them, but if we want the best for them in life and want them to grow being the best in life, then they need to be put through strict and though discipline in love. As it is with earthly parents, so it is with God.
One important truth that I want us to hold on to is that it is God's duty as our heavenly Father to discipline us, but it is our own responsibility to be trained by the trials and challenges with which the Lord disciplines us. So when we face hardships and a few road-blocks in our life's journey, it is not helping us to complain and conclude that God has been unfair to us, but that we pick up the lessons the Lord desires that we learn and get ready to move on to the next level. We are the only ones who will determine how long we remain in those trying situation because the earlier we pick up the lessons God wants us to learn, the faster we are able to get out of that level of training.
Roman 8:18-19 says "I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing to the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed." The sufferings may be many, but the glory is much more once we have been trained by them, once the nature of God has been produced in our lives. Now Paul says that all that God has created waits eagerly for our manifestation as we shine forth in the glory of God adorned on us as we march out in the maturity of God's nature in our lives.
The hardship is not an effort in futility, it's God's discipline of your lives designed to produce His nature in you that you might shine forth in His glory and through you the entire creation of God might give Him all the glory. So don't despair, God is with you even as you pass through those challenges, He is watching you and will not tempt you beyond what you can bear. It is well with you.