Why God Won't Remove Your Struggle | What Every Christian Needs to Know About Trials and Suffering

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Jonny Ardavanis

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The 3 Biblical Realities Every Christian Needs to Understand:

See Your Trial for What It Is - God's custom training program for your faith
See Yourself for Who You Are - Unfinished work in progress
See God for Who He Is - A Father doing necessary work in difficult circumstances

What You'll Actually Learn:

Why James tells us to "count it ALL joy" (and what that really means)
How trials test both the authenticity and quality of your faith
The difference between trials that refine vs. consequences of bad choices
Why we need God's wisdom during difficult seasons
How to work with God's purposes instead of just enduring
Paul's approach to finding strength in weakness (2 Corinthians 12)

Straight From Experience:

This isn't academic theology - it's tested truth from a family dealing with ongoing challenges and the daily choice to trust God when circumstances don't improve.

For Anyone Facing Trials:

Regardless of your struggle - medical, financial, relational, personal - these biblical principles apply to every type of difficulty. You don't need to be dealing with illness to benefit from this conversation.

Perfect for:

Anyone currently in a trial of any kind
Christians questioning God's purposes in suffering
Those supporting others through difficult seasons
Anyone wanting biblical wisdom for tough times

Scripture: James 1:2-8, 2 Corinthians 12:7-10

"It's a good God doing good work in a hard place."

Transcript

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0:00.0	Suffering is real and it's actually an inevitable component of the way God refines us.
0:06.0	Here's what I would say to anybody gone through difficulty.
0:09.0	The reason you count this joy is because you know I need this.
0:14.5	And you know that a good God who's generous with what I need to accomplish his work through the he rules which is my
0:21.7	transformation into the image of Christ that's the goal of God yeah most normal
0:26.5	people are gone I can't wait to get out of here yeah you know I just got to
0:30.1	survive until I get out and I think what God would say is let it have its
0:35.6	perfect result stay with it engage it don it. Don't resign. Don't get
0:40.6	passive. Don't get angry. I like to say it's a good God doing good work in a hard place.
0:53.8	Harry, well, thanks for sitting down.
0:55.9	You know, it says in Job that as surely as sparks fly upward, mankind is born into trouble.
1:01.1	We live in a world of trials and trouble.
1:03.9	I've heard you say that if you're not in a trial right now, you soon will be or you just got out of one.
1:09.8	And I want you to maybe just, if you can, share a little bit about your story.
1:13.5	And then we want to walk through three principles that you've given before on just your
1:17.3	outlook and your perspective during trials, but maybe just even why this is a topic or theme
1:23.0	that is near and dear to you because it's relevant to just the Christian life in general?
1:28.4	Yeah, I think the context for me is rooted
1:30.7	foundationally in the Word of God.
1:33.8	What we're about to say is because God said it.
1:36.8	But I think there's an added pathos, at least to me,
1:40.2	is because I have had to live this because of certain circumstances that I've unfolded
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