The Christians “condition” is how they are doing? Are they maintaining and enduring trials or complaining about them? It’s ok to wonder and maybe complain, but the less we allow a trial to move us, the more we mature in “the image of Christ” (Rom 8:29; 2Co 3:18). We are not to forget our unmoved “position” in the Lord Jesus. Regardless of the difficulty, we are still permanently forgiven, and God will show us this no matter how you are going through a trial or trials.
Our position in the Lord Jesus cannot possibly change, we are always in the same place with Him—forgiven! Our condition is ever changing, and it is the difference in the level of our difficulties that God teaches us the most concerning how we will use our faith. How we use our faith manifests the most to others who we are.
Thankfully, “God is faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able:” no man can be tempted, afflicted, or persecuted by men, but by a divine permission, and that voluntary (Job 1:7; 2:2); nor more than, or above that measure which God hath predetermined; Who proportions the affliction to the strength He determines and promises to give, and does give, and the strength of His people to the temptation or affliction He suffers to befall them; for which His faithfulness is engaged, having promised that as their day is, their strength shall be; that He will never leave them nor forsake them, and that He will bear, and carry, and save them unto the uttermost, and that they shall hold on and out unto the end.”—John Gill (1697-1771)
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Our position in the Lord Jesus cannot possibly change, we are always in the same place with Him—forgiven! Our condition is ever changing, and it is the difference in the level of our difficulties that God teaches us the most concerning how we will use our faith. How we use our faith manifests the most to others who we are.
Thankfully, “God is faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able:” no man can be tempted, afflicted, or persecuted by men, but by a divine permission, and that voluntary (Job 1:7; 2:2); nor more than, or above that measure which God hath predetermined; Who proportions the affliction to the strength He determines and promises to give, and does give, and the strength of His people to the temptation or affliction He suffers to befall them; for which His faithfulness is engaged, having promised that as their day is, their strength shall be; that He will never leave them nor forsake them, and that He will bear, and carry, and save them unto the uttermost, and that they shall hold on and out unto the end.”—John Gill (1697-1771)
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