What causes adversity in my life? - Adversity - TouchPoints
Ecclesiastes 2:22-23So what do people get in this life for all their hard work and anxiety? Their days of labor are filled with pain and grief.
Trouble is an inevitable by-product of fallen human life.
Ezekiel 22:14“How strong and courageous will you be in my day of reckoning?”
Proverbs 12:13The wicked are trapped by their own words, but the godly escape such trouble.
Trouble is often the result of our own poor decisions and sin.
Jonah 1:3-4But Jonah got up and went in the opposite direction to get away from the Lord. . . . He found a ship leaving for Tarshish. . . . But the Lord hurled a powerful wind over the sea.
We can expect to find ourselves in deep trouble if we insist on running away from God.
Psalm 62:3-4So many enemies against one man—all of them trying to kill me. . . . They delight in telling lies about me.
Trouble is sometimes undeserved or caused by others.