DON’T get discouraged or frustrated and quit in life. Don’t answer half the questions and then leave the room. James wrote, “Let endurance have its perfect result” (1:4). In other words, take the whole test or you will stunt the growth process God has built into your trial.
A little boy saw a cocoon wiggling on the side of a tree. He knew it was a butterfly struggling to emerge, and that when it came out it would be beautiful. The boy watched the struggle for a while because he wanted to see the butterfly come out and fly away, but he grew impatient as time passed.
So the little boy decided to help the butterfly, which he figured had to be exhausted by now. He broke the cocoon open, but the butterfly inside was unable to fly because its wings were not strong enough. What the boy didn’t know was that the battle to shed the cocoon is necessary to develop and strengthen the butterfly’s wings.
The butterfly he “helped” was grounded because the boy let it out too soon. You and I will stay grounded if we don’t let patience have its perfect work. You may not like your trial, and that is very natural. Jesus certainly didn’t enjoy His severe trial in Gethsemane the night before His crucifixion, when His sweat became like drops of blood. But His prayer to God the Father was “ Not My will, but Yours be done” (Luke 22:42).
Check out the story in Luke’s gospel and you will discover that Jesus’ greatest moments of agony occurred after He had yielded His will to the Father. The Savior had to be strengthened by an angel (v. 43), and then the Bible says He sweated bloody drops (see v. 44). But He endured to the cross.
My point is there’s nothing wrong with feeling the pain as you endure a trial. But don’t cut the trial short, or you won’t get the maturity that the trial is designed to deliver. Remember that God has His hand on both the clock and the thermostat in your trial, and He has promised that you will not be tempted “beyond what you are able” (1 Corinthians 10:13).
Biography
Dr. Humphrey Mutiti is a Pastor, conference speaker, instructor, and a lecturer at Great Commission Bible College, an author of several books, has a DTh, a DMin and a student in the School of law.
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