Day 3 - Tuesday - Connect the Testaments: A 365-Day Devotional - Logos
December 14: Patient Endurance Jeremiah 27:1–28:17; Romans 5:1–21 ; Proverbs 20:1–12 In theory, it’s easy to provide answers to difficult faith questions. But when we face actual trials, everything changes. We gain a new perspective on the Bible passages we’ve memorized; the Christian maxims we’ve passed to others reverse and hit us full force. We don’t have the option to talk in hypotheticals. Trials require heartfelt faith and total reliance on God. Suffering and trials are not punishment or neglect on God’s part. In fact, they’re quite the opposite. Paul describes how God works through trials to build us up in the faith. And His work is not a quick fix or an easy answer. It’s a process, as Paul describes in his letter to the Roman church: “And not only this, but we also boast in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces patient endurance, and patient endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope, and hope does not disappoint because the love of God...