PROBLEMS;
TRIALS: ATTITUDE TOWARD; PESSIMISM

I have always felt compassion for Christian men and women who seem to major in pessimism, looking on the dark and gloomy side and never able to do anything with life’s problems but grumble about them!

I meet them often, and when I do I wonder: “Can these people be reading the same Bible that I have been reading?…”

Peter states it as a paradox: the obedient Christian greatly rejoices even in the midst of great heaviness, trials and suffering. God’s people know that things here are not all they ought to be, but they are not spending any time in worrying about it. They are too busy rejoicing in the gracious prospect of all that will take place when God fulfills all of His promises to His redeemed children!

Romans 8:18–19; Titus 2:11–14; Hebrews 11:13–16; 1 Peter 1:6–7

I Call It Heresy!, 142, 149.