Trials....

Trials from God are purposeful, calculated, and customized. These trials end as soon as they accomplish His purpose. God chooses the discipline exclusively to our bent (personality). And He chooses the form of discipline that is gentlest to us, so we can bear it and not be crushed. We only see this in hindsight, but we can learn from these times and trust Him in the process.

He will come to do a strange thing;He will come to do an unusual deed:22 For the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, has plainly said that He is determined to crush the whole land. So scoff no more, or your punishment will be even greater. 23 Listen to me; listen, and pay close attention.24 Does a farmer always plow and never sow? Is he forever cultivating the soil and never planting? 25 Does he not finally plant his seeds–black cumin, cumin, wheat, barley, and emmer wheat–each in its proper way, and each in its proper place? 26 The farmer knows just what to do, for God has given him understanding.27 A heavy sledge is never used to thresh black cumin; rather, it is beaten with a light stick. A threshing wheel is never rolled on cumin; instead, it is beaten lightly with a flail. 28 Grain for bread is easily crushed, so he doesn’t keep on pounding it. He threshes it under the wheels of a cart, but he doesn’t pulverize it.29 The Lord of Heaven’s Armies is a wonderful teacher, and He gives the farmer great wisdom Isaiah 28:21c-29