Devotionals about Suffering & Trials
Suffering is not the evidence that God has left — it's often where He does His deepest work. The devotionals on suffering and trials below refuse easy answers and sit with the real pain while pointing to the real hope.
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220 devotionals in Suffering & Trials
September 19, 2025
Running the Race: The Reward of Endurance
I’ve been writing about persevering the last couple of days and reading about the struggle on Earth and the eternal reward in Heaven. For most of my life I raced motocross, most of you know that. But I’ve never received a medal with out running the race. No successful business person or entrepren...
contentmentSeptember 17, 2025
Learning Contentment in Every Circumstance
I’m totally entrenched in our topic we started last week and I want to wrap it up with a simple question? How quickly can you or do you bounce back from hardship and loss? Maybe it paralyses you into a depressed state? The key is learning to press on in life regardless of your adverse circumstanc...
gods-goodnessAugust 28, 2025
Trusting God's Goodness When Life Gets Hard
We will all face those times in our lives when we question whether or not God is on our side. In September of 2016, I was seriously injured doing what I love, racing motocross. I broke my jaw requiring plates and screws and my back at the T5,6&7. While the weather was great that fall, I was laid...
sufferingAugust 1, 2025
When Life Gets Hard, God Still Loves You
I see a lot of post and stories in the media (that which I allow myself to see) and people seem, generally speaking, so mad and angry. Many times I see them questioning God or if there even is one. Why do we sometimes get frustrated or angry with God? Let’s face it, we all do it. We lose a job pr...
sufferingMay 19, 2025
Rejoicing in Suffering
Like you, I’ve gone through sufferings and hard times and I will again I’m sure. But are we rejoicing in our sufferings?Here’s a great quote by CS Lewis, “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain. It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” “Not only t...
trialsMay 14, 2025
Count It All Joy Through Trials
As I sit here this morning reading and wondering what we will talk about, my mind continues to slip to Monday’s surgery and how this has seemingly drug on forever…mainly because I still feel it. But the thing is, I’m not complaining. Probably because I’ve learned that this is all part of my story...
trialsMay 2, 2025
Gospel Through Chains: Finding Purpose in Trials
“I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel, so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ. And most of the brothers, having become confident in the Lord by my imprison...
spiritual-warfareApril 23, 2025
Be Watchful: Your Adversary Prowls Like a Roaring Lion
“Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. And after you have suffered a little while...
patienceMarch 31, 2025
Learning Patience Under Pressure
A simple thought to start your week…We live in a world that is going by so fast that finding patience is becoming a lost art. However, one of the best ways to be patient is to carry on with life, knowing God is in control...not you. I will say it one more time, “God is in control, not you.” “Not...
joyMarch 13, 2025
Finding Joy in Trouble: Christ Has Overcome the World
Jesus said in John 16:33, “In this world, you will have trouble…”That’s almost like a disclaimer for life on earth , you are going to have trouble, whether you are in Christ or not. But the hope that we have is what separates us from the world, and that is why Jesus goes on to say, “But take hear...
perseveranceMarch 12, 2025
Pressing On Through Failure: Choose Redemption Over Retreat
This life isn’t easy, in fact it’s hard. We all have struggled and we all have failed but we must move on...“Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my...
perseveranceFebruary 18, 2025
When Prayers Seem Unanswered: The Hope That Sustains
Have you been praying for something for a long time and it hasn’t happened yet? I think at times we all have. Look, we all know that life isn't always easy, I dig it. And more so for a Christian who wants to live a life contrary to the world's philosophies. Sometimes it is tempting to throw in th...
contentmentJanuary 23, 2025
Finding God's Strength in Highs and Lows
I watched an interview yesterday by one of the Ohio State Football players after the win in the National Championship game. He was discussing the following scripture; “I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty...
sufferingJanuary 10, 2025
Righteous Suffering and God's Blessings
Last thing on Job and suffering and let’s ring in the weekend. Job was a tremendously righteous man and suffered greatly. So do we assume that the more righteous we are the more suffering we are to expect? Not necessarily. The large part of Job’s life features God’s blessings in every way. You se...
sufferingJanuary 9, 2025
God's Way Out Isn't What We Expect
You ever notice that when we finally get out of whatever it is we are suffering from it never seems to be the way we thought we would get out of it? Like during our suffering we could never understand or see the way out that God has for us. It’s because it’s His plan for us not our plan for us. H...
sufferingJanuary 8, 2025
Satan Tries to Break, God Tries to Make
Let’s talk about Job for a little bit. You see God would only allow Satan to go so far with Job. We would only allow him to endure just what he was capable of enduring. Just like our own struggles and pain, Satan is trying to break you and God is trying to make you using the same situation. Think...
faith-in-trialsDecember 12, 2024
Bloom Where You're Planted: Finding Peace in God's Plan
“But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.”Jeremiah 29:7 God didn’t put you where you are by mistake. He doesn’t make mistakes. When we believe in our hearts God is good and that His though...
trialsDecember 6, 2024
Finding Joy Through Life's Difficult Seasons
Aight, look here. We all know people who are going through a rough season in their life…it’s seems like this time of year especially. Heck, you may be too.While I certainly feel empathy, I can’t help but reflect on the fact the If you live long enough in this world, you will inevitably go through...
prideNovember 4, 2024
Naming Our Struggles: Pride, Lust, and Entitlement
So we all have to deal with pride, lust and entitlement to some degree. Some more in one area than others. But to be able to deal with the weak areas of our life we need to be able to name it. For me, it’s mostly pride. But keep in mind, we are only as strong as we are honest. “Do nothing from se...
perseveranceOctober 31, 2024
Grinding It Out: How Perseverance Builds Character
Grinding it out and persevering builds character. Plain and simple. Something about endurance has the incredible capacity to refine you. I guess it’s kind of like a fire for silver, removing impurities and strengthening the character. Often because endurance goes hand-in-hand with trials and tria...
sufferingOctober 7, 2024
Job Had It Worse - God's Sovereignty in Suffering
This past week was one I won’t forget for a long time, in fact in ways it’s still going. Flying supplies and helping with some ground coordination and answering questions for folks that want to help those in NC/TN. As I got in my truck and drove away from the airport yesterday, I couldn’t help bu...
gratitudeSeptember 9, 2024
The Secret to Contentment in Every Circumstance
“I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.”Philippians 4:12-13So, we’ve all seen the scripture above and in most every case i...
peaceSeptember 4, 2024
Finding God's Peace When Your World Is Upside Down
Can we have peace in our hearts when our world is turned upside down?Pretty good question that requires an honest look inward. You see the kind of peace the world give us is pretty sketch at best. It can change on a whim with no notice at all. Happened to me last summer with the cancer diagnosis,...
sufferingAugust 22, 2024
Why Good People Suffer: Rain Falls on Just and Unjust
Job was a tremendously righteous man and suffered greatly. So do we assume that the more righteous we are the more suffering we are to expect? Not necessarily. The large part of Job’s life features God’s blessings in every way. You see, Christ tells His disciples that good and bad things happen t...