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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