I have begun to read 1 Peter - an epistle I do not read as often as others. What a gem it is! In just the first few sentences he had my mind and heart welling up with such thankfulness because:
God's own power guards me, through faith. I am not my own. I have been bought with a price. No more is my faith my own,, but a gift renewed over and over. Therefore it is and will be sufficient to carry me through life and to Him.
My trials are necessary, not fortuitous. My particular trials in my particular life. All of them. And God brings them only if they are necessary.
Trials are grievous. Mine certainly are. They hurt, alot. They would not be trials if they didn't.
My trials are tests. Think school tests. They show whether or not you have learned something well. What do they test? The reality, the genuineness of my faith. And what is faith? Believing that what God says is true. Do I? Do I not? I can see for myself as God tests me
What happens with gold that is tested in the fire? It survives, but ultimately perishes anyway. What about me? I will not perish. In Christ, my faith will be found genuine and all deficiencies filled up by Him.
To His praise and glory and honor...
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