When faced with difficulties, trials and persecution, how would we respond? Today's reading tells us that when we face such trials, we should "try to treat them as a happy privilege; you understand that your faith is only put to the test to make you patient, but patience too is to have its practical results so that you will become fully-developed, complete, with nothing missing." Sometimes we may feel as if we are not getting anywhere with our trials, but our trials are helping us to be humble, to be patient, and to depend on God's help.
And when we seek God's help, the reading also reminds us that we should "ask with faith, and no trace of doubt." Some of us may pray to God, but when we do not get a reply, some may begin to wonder whether our prayer would be answered. Are we expecting God to be at our beck and call? No! God will help us according to His time, not ours. After all, are we ultimately striving to let His will be done, or are we trying to let our will be done? Let us let God be God, and continue to trust in His providence.
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