Tuesday, April 20, 2010

The Redemptive Violence of Grace

Here's a point that stuck out to me from a Paul Tripp series Portrait of a Struggle:

"Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing" (James 1:2-4).

Our Redeemer has an end in sight in His work in our lives--that we will be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. He will not stop short of His goal, and the vehicle of our growth is suffering. Suffering is not unfaithfulness or inattention from God but an expression of His love.

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