Monday, March 4, 2013

1 Peter 1: 6 So be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you have to endure many trials for a little while. 7 These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.
8 You love him even though you have never seen him. Though you do not see him now, you trust him; and you rejoice with a glorious, inexpressible joy.
 
I don't know about you.. but I do not see myself getting stronger and stronger.. I think that trials and tests make me weaker and weaker... that is how my mind thinks...
 
 
but if I look back over my life.. how many times have I not been strong enough to stay on God's path but instead have fallen to the side.. and I look at myself now and I think I could not go back to the way things used to be.. to the person I used to be... surely the thought arises from time to time but is no longer seriously considered...
 
 
so I would guess that I have become stronger and stronger... the focus has stopped being on how I feel about things.. but more about how God feels about things... less about getting what I want.. more about being who God has called me to be...
 
 
would I say my faith is genuine? I am not sure about that... there are days that I hold on just because where else is there to go? other days I hold on because of wanting to be close to God... I don't care if my faith ever brings me much praise and glory and honor... but I would like to be someone who brings glory to God...

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