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Peter 5:10
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.
Establishing and Settling
Our
God wants to establish and settle us.
The word ‘stablish’ here in the KJV is also translated ‘establish’. It means “to
set fast, to turn resolutely in a certain direction”. The Lord will use suffering in our lives to
adjust our direction or position us more firmly in the direction He has for us.
The word; ‘settle’ in this text
means, ‘to lay a foundation’. Our God, of ALL grace, wants our lives to
be grounded and strong in its very essence and basis. When we bring the sufferings we face to our
God, He will take those seasons and use them to give us a strong, solid
foundation and a resolute direction causing our lives to be purposeful and
positioned. God is able to do this. He establishes us and settle us. The sufferings we go through often bring
about temporal disorientation and we can find ourselves lacking clear
direction. Sufferings often shake the
very foundation of all we have been building on. This is good.
The end result, AFTER we have suffered awhile will be clear direction
and a firm foundation. Our God is able
to do this.
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