when faced with trials

Trouble is the lot of humankind under the fall. No sooner do we get out of one problem then there will soon be another following. Although I don't always handle problems well intially anyhow, I've at least come a long ways in accepting the fact of their inevitability.

Scripture tells us that when we're in trouble we're to pray. This is an occasion for our faith to be exercised and grow. Indeed all that comes to us passes through God's hands. Some of the trouble stems from our own sin in either doing something or failing to do what we should have done. And much of it can be just because we live in a fallen world in which bad things do happen in every sphere.

I wonder how Jesus looks at us and our reactions sometimes, to trials. Surely he is often just as disappointed as he was at times with his disciples when he was here on earth. It seemed like those closest to him at times, were slow to learn, while some who had no close association seemed to get it, or at least by their troubles were put in a place in which they found faith and acted on it.

I hope I grow in my faith when hit with new trials, regardless of what my first reaction may have been. And I hope I grow in regard to my first reaction. That I would trust God in it all. Not easy but that is faith. Faith in God through Christ by the Spirit and in the community of Jesus.