The Lesson of the Learning
“It is good for me that I have been afflicted;
that I might learn thy statutes.”
- Psalm 119:71-
Have you come to the place where this scripture is true in your life? Not many would choose affliction and this verse does not state that a choice was made to be afflicted.
It is a reflection. It is an epiphany that one chooses to say or to know after a bout of chastening or refining from God. We know that God loves us, that God wants the best of all things for us, and that God is ever working to arrange our lives so that we are more like Him.
Sometimes this causes us pain and sorrow.
No one likes the chastening of the Lord. Not many will ask for it. Still, after we have been chastened or gone through a time of refining, of purifying, we come through wiser and stronger for it.
When we can say as Job did “Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him: but I will maintain mine own ways before Him.” This is a mark of maturity in a believer. Discarding the entire world’s wisdom and at times thinking that God has abandoned us and still holding fast to Him.
Remember the result of Job’s trials.
“So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning”
- Job 42:12-
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