Christians have an unusual relationship with trials. While we do not wish to go through trials, and while we generally try to avoid them, we also know that God uses them to accomplish his good purposes in the world and in our lives. Many of us live with a kind of tension: We would never have wanted to endure the hardships we have passed through, yet we would not want to lose the benefits we have gained through them, for it is often in our times of great sorrow and great difficulty that God does his greatest work within us. Some of God’s choicest fruits grow best in the dark.
Made To Tremble
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Blair Linne understands this and gives evidence of it in the subtitle of her new book, Made to Tremble: How Anxiety Became the Best Thing that ever Happened to My Faith. That is a bold and almost shocking claim—that anxiety actually proved beneficial to her faith. Yet she speaks for many Christians when she expresses her conviction that those trials came to her through the hand of
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