For Just a Little While
Bayless Conley
Today's Scripture will start with the very last word of 1 Peter 1:4, just so
you know who it is talking about, and go through verse 7,
…you, who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready
to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a
little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the
genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes,
though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the
revelation of Jesus Christ.
Notice in verse 6 it says, Though now for a little while, if need be, you
have been grieved by various trials. That phrase "a little while"
literally means a season. The King James Version says, Though now for a
season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations.
I like the phrase "a little while". That tells me the season is going to
end. It is not forever. Every season ends. Winter ends. Spring ends. Summer
ends. Fall ends. Every season has a beginning, and every season has an
end.
If you are in a trial right now and feeling the weight of it, you are grieved
because of it, I have good news. It will not be forever. Things are going to
change. It may not seem like it, but that season will come to an end.
Even if you are not experiencing a trial today, I am confident you have gone
through such a season, and it is likely that you will probably experience such a
season again.
When you do, or if you are today, be encouraged. God's Word wants you—and
me—to remember it is for just a little while.
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Psalm 25
In you, Lord my God, I put my trust.
I trust in you
do not let me be put to shame,
nor let my enemies triumph over me.
No one who hopes in you
will ever be put to shame,
but shame will come on those
who are treacherous without cause.
Show me your ways, Lord,
teach me your paths.
Guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my Savior,
and my hope is in you all day long.
Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love,
for they are from of old.
Do not remember the sins of my youth
and my rebellious ways;
according to your love remember me,
for you, Lord, are good.
Good and upright is the Lord;
therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.
He guides the humble in what is right
and teaches them his way.
All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful
toward those who keep the demands of his covenant.
For the sake of your name, Lord,
forgive(U) my iniquity, though it is great.
Who, then, are those who fear the Lord?
He will instruct them in the ways they should choose.
They will spend their days in prosperity,
and their descendants will inherit the land.
The Lord confides in those who fear him;
he makes his covenant knownto them.
My eyes are ever on the Lord,
for only he will release my feet from the snare.
Turn to me and be gracious to me,
for I am lonely and afflicted.
Relieve the troubles of my heart
and free me from my anguish.
Look on my affliction and my distress
and take away all my sins.
See how numerous are my enemies
and how fiercely they hate me!
Guard my life and rescue me;
do not let me be put to shame,
for I take refuge in you.
May integrity and uprightness protect me,
because my hope, Lord,is in you.
Deliver Israel, O God,
from all their troubles!
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