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God Measures Every Trial, November 13
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man:
but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that
ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape,
that ye may be able to bear it.
1 Corinthians 10:13
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Each one has his own battles to fight, his own Christian experience
to gain, independent in some respects from any other soul; and God has
lessons for each to gain for himself that no other one can gain for him....
Our heavenly Father measures and weighs every trial before He permits
it to come upon the believer. He considers the circumstances and the
strength of the one who is to stand under the proving and test of God,
and He never permits the temptations to be greater than the capacity of
resistance. If the soul is overborne, the person overpowered, this can never
be charged to God, ... but the one tempted was not vigilant and prayerful
and did not appropriate by faith the provisions God had abundantly in
store for him. Christ never failed a believer in his hour of combat. The
believer must claim the promise and meet the foe in the name of the
Lord....
Oh, there is a great work to be done for the people of God, ere they
are prepared for translation to heaven! The heat of the furnace upon some
must be severe to reveal the dross. Self will have to be crucified. When
each believer is to the very extent of his knowledge obeying the Lord, and
yet seeking to give no just occasion to his fellow men to oppress him, he
should not fear the results, even though it be imprisonment and death....
The tender compassion of God is toward His people. Faith, wondrous
faith—it leads the people of God in straight paths. Without this faith we
shall certainly misunderstand His dealings with us, and distrust His love
and faithfulness. Whatever may be the trials and sufferings, ... let there
be no faintheartedness, no peevish repining, no complaining....
A single ray of the evidences of the undeserved favor of God shining
into our hearts will overbalance every trial of whatever character and
however severe it may be.
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