1 Peter 1:7 “Pure gold put in the fire comes out of it proved pure;
genuine faith put through this suffering comes out proved genuine. When Jesus
wraps this all up, it's your faith, not your gold, that God will have on
display as evidence of his victory.”
I love those movies where
rich children are predicted as never working for anything in their lives. The story usually goes, they do something
that drives their parents to force them to have to work for something they
want. They don’t know how to do it or
try to find a way out of it because they find it ridiculous. In the end, they learn a really good lesson
and they find out what they wanted wasn’t as important as they viewed it
before. Most of us have found out that
when you have to buy or work for something, it becomes more important to you
because you invested into it. If you’ve
noticed, God doesn’t usually just hand us faith when we ask for it; He gives us
moments and opportunities to learn it.
If He just gave it to us what would we learn from that? It wouldn’t be something we completely understood. He wants it to be a personal feeling to
us. Something we see as important and
precious; something worth working for.
Romans 1:16 “God's way of putting people right shows up in the acts of faith, confirming what Scripture has
said all along: "The person in right standing before God by trusting him
really lives."
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