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Sermon: Understanding The Process Towards Spiritual Maturity
Trials – Faith – Perseverance – Maturity and Completeness
Trials are testings through experience in order to prove something. Before anything else, the trials that we are talking here is not confined with sufferings, but also simple testings of faith as disciplines. In verse 2, the author is teaching us to “consider” it pure joy whenever we face trials. Trials are supposed to be treated with joy and not with worries. Sometimes we worry too much when we face trials.
As long as we live, trials will always be there and will never go away. This is a fact that we have to understand. All things that God created are good.
SPIRITUAL Co-FARMERS And Attributes of God
God’s and Mankind’s Multifacetedness
Even the physical nature’s and the creations’ complexity and structure reflect the quintessential and intrinsic complexity of its Creator’s nature, personality, character, and attributes. Particularly reflecting God’s great glories is the creature called mankind, whom He created in His image and likeness.
If we study the attributes, natures, personality, and character of God and mankind, we can see their obvious multifacetedness. It describes some kind of unity in the diversity of their attributes, natures, characters, and personalities. Actually, God is the most multifaceted perfect being, and mankind, as His creation, only imperfectly reflects such kind of multifacetedness. This multifacetedness particularly of God can be liken to a diamond, when it is usually cut into different facets or faces that can reveal its hidden beauty that reflects its strong molecular structure. Diamond, as the strongest and hardest solid such that only a diamond can cut a diamond, is among the most expensive gem known to mankind.
How To Listen To God
1.Be peaceful (v.14)
It is very important for Christians to live in peace with all people. Please note that the Bible tells us that we make every effort. It implies that in our lives, we will be facing troubles with other people, yet we are to make every effort to live at peace. It did not exempt us from problems and troubles. But it tells us to work for it.
Further more, the passage tells us to make peace with “all men” and not with selected men. Living at peace allows us to do many things in ministerial works. In Ephesians 6:15, apostle Paul instructed us to wear the gospel of peace which function as our boots. By doing that, we are then able to easily maneuver in Christian works.