Challenges

The teaching is clear that trials are not random but permitted, and that they are not given without limit, "God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also provide the way of escape" (1 Corinthians 10:13), which means there is always a boundary even if it doesn’t feel visible from inside it, and that part is meant to be certain, not something that shifts depending on how it feels. it also says that testing reveals what is already there, "the testing of your faith produces endurance" (James 1:3), so it isn’t creating something new as much as it is bringing something forward, measuring it in a way that only becomes clear when it is difficult, not when it is easy and that should be enough to understand the structure of it, that it is permitted, that it has a limit, and that it serves a purpose in revealing and strengthening something that would not be visible otherwise but it doesn’t feel like that when it is actually happening,…