The Gospel When Life is Hard

January 18 - The Gospel When Life is Hard

“Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” - Romans 5:1-5

How do you deal with the difficult circumstances you face in life? What do you do in the middle of a trial?

“The Gospel is the one great permanent circumstance in which I live and move; and every hardship in my life is allowed by God only because it serves His gospel purposes in me.” - Milton Vincent / A Gospel Primer

If God was willing to allow his Son to suffer for our sake, if there was a purpose in that, then surely there is a purpose in the trials that we face. And seeing how Jesus faced trials and hardship in his life for our sake gives us an example of how we can deal with the difficult things in life.