I read this excerpt yesterday in Streams in the Desert and was encouraged by it. Just a little disclaimer, when the author talks about "getting out of a trial" and I don't necessarily agree with that phrase. I believe that we "get out of trials" on God's time and not ours, but I do agree with his idea that if we view trials properly they may cease to seem like a trial to us. It is much more becoming of the Christian to view trials as an opportunity to learn something of value and to grow in grace. This little paragraph sums it up beautifully.
"There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and then to be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever before experienced and to accept it with delight as an opportunity of receiving a greater measure of God's divine grace. In this way, even the Adversary becomes a help to us and all the things that seem to be against us turn out to assist us along our way. Surely this is what is meant by the words In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. (Romans 8:37)"
~A.B Simpson, Streams in the Desert, September 7th
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