The Reason You Go Through It
Hebrews 13:20-21
20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through
the blood of the everlasting covenant,
21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through
Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
KJV
There is nothing wrong with asking why you go through something. Sometimes the answer we get enables us to take
the next step on our way through.
The number one reason we go through some of what we go through is to be made perfect in every good work to do
God's will. Ask Peter he will agree. What he went through in his denial of Christ brought him into perfection to do God's
will.
When we are born again. We are perfect in Christ and in our spirit but not in our mind and body, they have to go
through a perfecting process.
1 Peter 5:10
10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a
while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
KJV
There are things we go through where we exercise our faith and our knowledge in the word of God that will make us
what we ought to be in order for us to do what we are born in Christ to do. The perfect will of God. Then the writer of
Hebrews says that it is him, God working in you through Christ what is pleasing in his sight. So it is God that will choose
what we go through and not we our self. Ask Jesus and he will tell you that it was the Father that chose what he went
through to this result.
Hebrews 5:9
9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
KJV
What we go through will not be beyond or out of order of the word of God. It will always have the cooperation of the
Holy Spirit. And the aid of your angels. And it will all be done through Jesus.
It may be new to you but it will not be impossible for you. For he, God will never let us be tried above our ability. But it
will always be challenging to our faith so that we will grow in the grace and the knowledge of Jesus.
And remember it was the Holy Spirit that led Jesus into the wilderness. So don't give the devil the credit for God getting
you in shape to do his will. The Spirit led Jesus into the wilderness but Jesus came out of the wilderness in the power of
the Holy Ghost. So give close attention to the leading of the Holy Spirit. And always keep close in the surface of your
memory that it is God working in you to will and to do of his good pleasure. So let him work and you will come to the
place where you do his will in his strength in his pleasure.
No matter who you are or where you fit in the body of Christ you will go through some thing to make you what you
ought to be so you can do what you ought to do. Do it gracefully.