Your dream dissolved into a nightmare. High hopes took a hike. Good intentions got lost in a comedy of errors, only this time nobody was laughing. You didn’t soar, you slumped… Discouragement is just plain awful.
However, discouragement is very curable.—Chuck Swindoll
…though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various kinds of trials.
1 Peter 1:6 ESV
Dear friends, God the Father chose you long ago and knew you would become his children …
1 Peter 1:2a LB
…for it is his boundless mercy that has given us the privilege of being born again so that we are now members of God’s own family.
1 Peter 1:3 LB
No matter what happens, God will
…And the Holy Spirit has been at work in your hearts, cleansing you with the blood of Jesus Christ and making you to please Him.
1 Peter 1:2b LB
No matter what happens, God will
According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead…
1 Peter 1:3 ESV
These trials are only to test your faith, to show that it is strong and pure. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold–and your faith is far more precious to God than mere gold. So, if your faith remains strong after being tried by fiery trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.
1 Peter 1:7 LB
That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. For our present troubles are quite small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us an immeasurably great glory that will last forever! So, we don’t look at the troubles we can see right now; rather, we look forward to what we have not yet seen. For the troubles we see will soon be over, but the joys to come will last forever.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 NLT
And God has reserved for his children the priceless gift of eternal life; it is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay.
1 Peter 1:4 LB
Bring in one and then the other when I say it…Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:1 NIV
Neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:39 NIV
Our confidence is not in our love for him, which is frail, fickle & faltering, but in his love for us, which is steadfast, faithful, and persevering. The doctrine of “the perseverance of the saints” needs to be renamed. It is the perseverance of God with the saints. —John Stott
And God, in his mighty power, will make sure that you get there safely to receive it, because you are trusting him.
1 Peter 1:5 LB
No matter what happens: I’m
This means tremendous joy to you, even though at present you may be temporarily harassed by all kinds of trials.
1 Peter 1:6 Phillips