Prodigal: Sometimes I am down. I wonder what is going on with God’s ways.
Me: Me too, but that is why we encourage each other.
This is from William Gurnall
God, can in fact, use His saint’ failures to strengthen their faith, which, like a tree, stands stronger for the shaking. Times of testing expose the heart’s true condition. False faith, once foiled, seldom comes on again; but true faith rises and fights more valiantly, as we see in Peter. Temptation is to faith as fire is to gold. The fire not only reveals which is true gold, but makes the true gold more pure…Faith before temptation has much extraneous stuff that clings to it and passes for faith; but when temptation comes, the dross is discovered and consumed by the fiery trial…And here is all the devil gets: Instead of destroying the saint’s faith, he is the means of refining it, thereby making it stronger and more precious.
Some times the test seems to last forever. Sometimes you can see no good that can come of it. But our job is to just stay focused on Christ. He will do the refining.
John 6:47
Whoever believes has eternal life.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
