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Title: Don't be fooled. Check your whole Bible and don't check your brain at the door.
Review: It is all over the Bible that God allows trials at times, in the Christian life and He uses them to increase our faith (James 1:2,3) and to make us more like Christ (Romans 8:28&29). God is good. His purposes are higher than our purposes and it will be worth it all (IPeter 1:7). He told us that: "in this world you will have suffering, but be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world." (John 16:33) Look up Phillipians 3:10-21 and see for yourself, a look at God's take on this whole subject. Take a look, also, at the life of Joseph, in Genesis, as an example, or Paul, who said that he knew what it was to be hungry, naked, shipwrecked, and yet content.
