Unshakable Faith Through Suffering and Grace

Ryan Fan
Koinonia
Published in
7 min readJul 17, 2019

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John Piper writes as a meditation on James 1:2–3,

“Strange as it may seem, one of the primary purposes of being shaken by suffering is to make our faith more unshakable.”

I have been turning more to the verses in times when I have been shaken by trials and sufferings, from daily toil to more existential crises, that this suffering is for good, not the darkness…

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Ryan Fan
Koinonia

Believer, Baltimore City IEP Chair, and 2:39 marathon runner. Diehard fan of “The Wire.” Support me by becoming a Medium member: https://bit.ly/39Cybb8