05/28/2014 WEIGHT BEARING
1 CORINTHIANS 10:13 But remember this—the wrong desires that come into your life aren't anything new and different. Many others have faced exactly the same problems before you. And no temptation is irresistible. You can trust GOD to keep the temptation from becoming so strong that you can't stand up against it, for HE has promised this end and will do what HE says. HE will show you how to escape temptation's power so that you can bear up patiently against it. [Living Bible translation]
All of us experience trials and temptations. Everyone has a cross--even JESUS---especially JESUS.
The Bible is filled with the trials, temptations, pain and challenges of people GOD used and blessed:
- Paul had a thorn in the flesh (1Cor. 12:7);
- Mary saw her SON suffer and die (John 19:26);
- David suffered the jealousy of Saul (1Samuel 18:11);
- Hosea had an embarrassing, unfaithful and adulterous wife (Book of Hosea);
- Job suffered one catastrophe after another (Book of Job);
- Abraham was faced with what seemed like an impossible situation—to sacrifice his only son (Gen. 22:2);
- Lot lived in a morally corrupt city (Genesis 13:13);
- Joseph was falsely accused and did prison time (Genesis 39:8-2); and
- Ruth and Naomi lost their husbands during worse time ever—in the midst of a famine. (Book of Ruth).