The Sequel *

 The Sequel

 

God has made a sequel to the trials of this life.

 

“No trial has taken you except what is human. Now, faithful is God, Who will not be leaving you to be tried above what you are able, but, together with the trial, will be making the sequel also, to enable you to undergo it” (I Corinthians 10:13, Concordant Version).

 

God’s provision for our trials is not found in an “escape,” as the KJV renders it, but rather in “the sequel.”

 

The believer has access to the divine awareness of Romans 8:28 and Ephesians 1:11 which makes us confident that the best is yet to come! Our earthly lives are merely an elementary stage on the divine drama of the ages. Faith rests in the grand sequel that awaits. Paul puts the anticipation of “the sequel” as that which takes us through the severest of trials.

 

Here are a few examples of the Scripture’s declarations of creation’s assured sequel.

 

“I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will heal” (Deuteronomy 32:39).

“The Lord kills, and makes alive: He brings down to the grave, and brings up” (I Samuel 2:6)

“He has torn, and He will heal us; He has smitten, and He will bind us up” (Hosea 6:1).

“He makes sore, and binds up: He wounds, and His hands make whole” (Job 5:18).

“You turn man to destruction, and [then] say, ‘Return, you children of men’” (Psalm 90:3).

 

We can see that the sequel to “death” is “resurrection”; the sequel to “destruction” is the divine “return.”

 

“The sequel” is what took our Lord through His severest trial of Gethsemane and Calvary. Thus we are to be,

 

“Looking unto Jesus, the Inaugurator and Finisher of faith, Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the stake, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:2).

 

By extension, as members of His Body we enter the “the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death” (Philippians 3:10), to “fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ” (Colossians 1:24). This is our divine appointment and privilege.

 

Related Video:

 

The Sustaining Sequel - Clyde Pilkington 

https://youtu.be/LUJXQBqp7bg

 

Related Articles:

 

The Sequel Which Sustains Which Sustains – Frank Neil Pohorlak (1907-1988)

https://www.biblestudentsnotebook.com/bsn258.pdf

 

Trials and the Sequel – Reader’s Question Box 51 – Clyde L. Pilkington, Jr.

https://www.biblestudentsnotebook.com/bsn828.pdf

 

Related Books:

 

Suffering: God’s Forgotten Gift, Clyde L. Pilkington, Jr.

https://www.studyshelf.com/suffering.htm#5150

 

Affliction, Trials and Suffering (A Comprehensive Compilation)

https://www.studyshelf.com/suffering.htm#4026

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