Usually we look for a quick and easy escape route. God’s plan for us is different. He wants us to count it all joy, ‘and let patience have its perfect work, that we may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing’ (verse 4). God is using our trials to bring us to maturity.”—John MacArthur Reflecting on the Text 9) The old song says it this way: “Dare to be a Daniel, dare to stand alone; Dare to have a purpose firm, dare to make it known.” Clearly, there is a difference between holding to a belief
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