Trusting in God’s Faithfulness!
[Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. James 1:2-4
God tests us by allowing us to go through different experiences so we may grow in faith and endurance. Sometimes those testing’s come by our disobedience toward Him and His word. I remember there was a time that I was extremely ill. It was not God testing me it was due to my poor eating habits and lack of exercise. My disobedience in these areas created havoc on my body.
How can we rejoice in those difficult moments of testing? Remember, God does not use sickness or sinful situations to test us. The enemy, Satan uses sickness and disease. The testing of our faith produces both endurance and patience. God stated that in this world we would face tribulation and persecution but we are to stand strong and resist the enemy. Standing strong and resisting the enemy is the testing of our faith.
How do you respond to that situation? Do you say to yourself, “Everything’s gone wrong! The Lord’s promise will never come true”? No, I don’t believe that. It says, “Until the time that the promise came, the word of the Lord tested him.” How important it is to see that when the Lord gives us a promise, many times everything that happens next will seem to be the very opposite of what God has promised. It’s so important that at times like that we don’t give up on the promise, we don’t say, “God has forgotten; God has failed.”
We must speak unto those mountains that we are facing the promises of God. We should confess openly and without shame our trust in God. Many people speak of their mountains but not of their faith.
You see, that promise that God gave us is testing us. It’s testing our faith and our constancy to see if we’ll hold on in the darkest hour. And when we pass the test, then, like all the people in scripture, we will see the promises of God will be fulfilled.
Remember the way to think, is what you will speak. And what you speak is how you will live!