“In this you greatly rejoice, though now
for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much
more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be
found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ” – 1
Peter 1:6-7
There are times in life that you just feel
like every day is a Monday, ya know? It’s like from every angle of your life
there’s something to worry about, something to fear or be down about. We have two options when we get to this spot
in our journey. We can let it break us,
or we can let it make us.
You can let it break you by concentrating
on the problems. Sometimes they are
mountains and you just cannot find a way around them. Health issues, financial issues, relationship
issues – they can all create worry and stress that just seem to have no end or
solution. It’s like your life has become
a horror movie, and you just don’t look away.
When you don’t look away it just gets worse and worse, and your head
fills with doubts, and those doubts grow into possibilities, and those
possibilities start to keep you up at night until you are broken.
But God tells us in the above passage that
these times come to us not to harm us, but to grow our faith, to make it
genuine, to make it more valuable than gold.
It comes to allow us opportunity to praise and honor God. We’re told in Hebrews 11:1 that “faith is the substance of things hoped
for, the evidence of things NOT seen”. In order to grow that faith,
we have to stop concentrating on the problem, and start looking at the solution
God will craft from our faith. If you
keep looking at the problem, you’ll be broken.
But instead of doing all your thinking on the problem, start thinking of
the solution God will provide. Looking
forward to what is not yet seen will grow your faith. It will give you hope. It will make you stronger instead of breaking
you.
Friend, concentrate on the blessings of the
past, the times He has brought you through the fires and storms of life. He has a great plan for each of us. We just need to remain faithful, remain
streadfast, abiding in Him. There is
nothing in this life that is too big of a problem for Almighty God.
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