My mother is in the hospital. Has a tumor in her bladder that she will be having removed and biopsied next week. In addition one of my children who broke his arm, had to have surgery to set it and is still in a cast came down with Strep throat. Another one of my children has swine flu. And in all honesty, like most I could keep the list going. Life has storms and certainly right now I am in a season of thunderstorms.
That is not the strange thing. It does not strike me as odd when life is....well life. Jesus makes it abundantly clear in passages such as Matt. 7:24-27 that the storms of life come to all people. Where did this escapist mentality that invades the church come from? It is certainly not Biblical. Anyway...that is another blog.
The strange thing to me is how many believers assume that those facing trials will question their faith, blame God or quit. Perhaps because I did not come to Christ out of crisis it never has dawned on me to abandon Him while I am in one.
My response when I face the trials of life is Thank God Jesus is The Rock - that in every storm there is Truth that is unshakeable, Peace that is unexplainable and strength that is undeniable.
Is your faith shaken during hard times? Why??? Who said there wouldn't be hard times? The TV preacher, the church, wishful thinking? Jesus never said that. Jesus said that in this life we will face trouble but to take heart that He has overcome the world. That is why He came. Jesus is my hero.
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Darren
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Faith comes before your engine starts. It comes when you get in the car without even thinking and before you know it you're down the road. That's the faith i want in God. We don't think about how our car starts until something isn't working...then it's like what the heck it was working just fine yesterday..it's when our faith is challenged or when trials come that we start to question his ways. I know this comment might be elementary to some but then again...do we have a child like faith? Or do we feel that we are above that ?
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