We have to keep a Godly perspective in trials. Don't look at the circumstances, God has engineered for you, as "happening to you" BUT as "happening for you." God disciplines His children and allows suffering for many reasons, some of which we may never understand.
Every believer on earth will suffer, it has always been this way. If you have no suffering in your life, then maybe you are not seeking to live a godly life (see - 2 Timothy 3:12). The righteous are indeed afflicted (see- Psalm 34:19).
In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
(John 16:33b)
Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. (2 Timothy 3:12)
The phrase overcome is used by John more than any other writer.
I Jn. 2:13 I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, little children, because you have known the Father.
I Jn. 4:4 “You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
It is repeatedly mentioned in the book of Revelation from Jesus for the saints to remain steadfast:
Rev. 2:7 "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God."' (2:17, 26, 3:5, 12, 21)
John ends the Revelation of Jesus Christ with the promise Rev 21:7 "He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son."
How do we overcome the world? Our faith, and it is based on our relationship to the Son of God. 1 Jn. 5:4-5 "For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world-our faith. Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?"
James 1:2-5 “My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
1 Peter 1:6-7 “In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith , being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ”
1 Peter 2:20-21 “when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before God. For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps.”
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