February: Salvation from your Sins, but not from Tribulation
Believing in the Lord is easy, but you are not free from tribulation when it happens, in fact you can expect more of it once you are a Christian. We become a part of the body of Christ, and in him are victorious over this tribulation. This will increase the glory that we bring to God, for we depend on him and need to ask him for things to help us in this time of trial. And it brings our Father God glory to ask him for things in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, because we will receive them in his name, and therefore it brings him glory.This tribulation also increases our own [weight of] glory. For He finds great pleasure in bringing many sons to Glory. Think about Jesus, no one suffered a greater trial than him, yet there is no other name that is greater under heaven than his, and if we are to share in his glory, we have to suffer as he did. Don’t worry, what you receive far outweighs what you endure, I guarantee it.
Also, it perfects you, you can read James 1:2-4, it mentions that we are to be thankful when we face trials of many kinds because it develops patience. Why Patience and not skill? Because we are already been guaranteed victory over those trials in Jesus, we just wait for him to perfect us until we overcome them. And it says that in the end we will lack nothing, does lacking nothing mean having everything? Or not needing anything more? We will be able to endure any situation, and will not lack anything that really matters.
So what matters? I had a friend that told me that on a class quiz he was asked one day what he wanted to be when he grew up, and his answer was to be happy. God gives us a life where no matter what, we can be in peace, happy, righteous and calm, being able to make the right choice even under the most stressful and fearful circumstance.