The Blessings in the Struggle
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. James 1:12 KJV
Within the statement of this bible verse, Jesus Christ our Lord must be exalted as our greatest example, for as it reads in (Hebs 4: 15), that Christ our Lord was tempted at all points, like as we are yet found to be without transgression. (Sinless): whereby he has been crowned as our life, our great redeemer, our great high priest and the restorer of paths to walk in, for he has gone before us and paved the way for our victorious outcome.
Within our Christian walk, ‘struggle’ is not a word that is usually embraced as a welcoming attribute. Struggle usually indicates hardship, pain, disappointments, situations to overcome, paths to endure, questions of wondering, why, how, and when. But they who endure through to the supernatural morning, will experience a new joy as depicted in the dawning of a new day (Palms. 30:5). They will experience that the hardest trials and challenges enter and many times come to build our endurance, whereby, new strength and undeniable assurance that God truly exists becomes our living testimony, knowing that it was the Lord only that could have caused us to make it through. Struggles come as a testament of God working in us to present the great hope of his glory (Ephs. 3: 17-19)
(Ephs. 3: 14-19). For this reason I bow my knees before the Father from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory, he may grant you to be strengthened with power in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in our hearts richly through love and faith. Struggles happen to root us and ground us in God’s love, faith, perfect holiness and righteousness. This is the hidden blessing within the struggle, to know God and the love of Christ without limit- the end result - to be filled with the fullness of Christ.
This is an extremely mighty blessing that God has in mind for all who walk the path of righteousness, and for those who have not yet entered this path, for he desires all to enter into abundant life.
(John 10:10) He will rescue and restore us. This happens as he brings us through our struggles, whereby his name is glorified as we overcome. (Heb. 12:2) speaks of the joy that was set before Christ. This is the joy that the Lord visualised that strengthened him to endure Calvary and a brutal act of death and crucifixion. He saw nations sanctified, in the which, we are numbered through enduring adversity and through the process of overcoming, as God leads us through.
This is the blessing in the struggle, ‘it conforms us to the image of Christ’ (Roms.8: 29). It builds Christ likeness in us, remembering that all things work together for good, for he has predestined us to become a reflection of him in every way.
This indeed is a great blessing through what may be a great struggle. James says to consider it as a pure gift (James1:2-3)MSG because our struggles, challenges, hard as they are become the gateways to perfection and completeness in God’s love. We are loved with an everlasting love and from a deep desire within Father for us to know him as he is (Jer. 31:3) Through our struggles, he draws us with loving-kindness and renews us through every situation.
The Christian journey does have struggles along the way as struggles produce endurance but the end result creates a beautiful being who lives from the fullness of Christ. Blessed is he who endures to the end: (of each struggle/ stepping stone to glory.)
(Roms 12:12-14) Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Be filled, be strengthened to endure, remembering the blessing in the struggle. There is a blessing within the struggle.
Blessings♡D