Is that thing I’m going through God trying to tell me to quit? The circumstances provoke doubt, and all of a sudden I’m not sure what I should do. I had an open door, but now it’s been closed, and I don’t know whether I should keep trying. Really, it would be easiest not to…
But what if God was the one who closed the door, to teach me to be more persistent? What if the lesson here is to muscle through the adversity, trusting that He has the outcome in hand? I’ve asked these questions many, many times.
In my experience, when a difficulty is truly from God, He doesn’t send it along to teach me to quit. The purpose is for me to learn endurance.
My Bible reading from a few days ago said this:
These trials are only to test your faith, to show that it is strong and pure. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold – and your faith is far more precious to God than mere gold. So if your faith remains strong after being tried by fiery trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.
1 Peter 1:7
Trials purify my faith… Fiery trials, at that. Wow.
Later on in 1 Peter, though, he says this:
…trust yourself to the God who made you, for He will never fail you. 1 Peter 4:19
When I get past the parts about fiery trials, here’s what sticks out to me: God is purifying my faith, which is more precious to Him than gold…and I can trust Him. He will never fail me.
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