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Matured Trials

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Count is as joy in your trials,
When you meet trials of all kinds;
Testing your faith that defiles,
Making steadfastness in the minds.

Faith works patience to make perfect,
That desire comes temptation;
Strengthening faith as to reject,
For building on your foundation.

If anyone lacks the wisdom,
Ask God who gives generously;
Without reproach from His Kingdom,
And given luxuriously.

Ask with no wavering or doubt,
For doubts are like waves in the sea;
Driven by wind and tossed about,
A slavery to its decree.

People must not suppose He will,
Receive anything from the Lord;
Let the Holy Spirit instill,
Of His wisdom as a reward.

Those unstable in all his ways,
The lowly brother boasts to laud;
While he unceasingly prays,
To the Almighty Triune God.

But the wealthy will be made low,
Like grass withers to pass away;
Because only the Lord will know,
Their riches made them go astray.

The sun rises with scorching heat,
The beauty of flowers perish;
Death will be the wealthy defeat,
And the pursuit that they cherish.

Copyright ©2022 Richard Newton Sherrer

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