We will come through, if we faint not
Right now there is a vetting process going on to make sure the judge that has been recommended is worthy of the seat on the Supreme Court. If you have been following this in the media you know that this “hearing,” has become the biggest joke that is hit Washington in the past decade. The simple fact that they did all they could to scrounge up one person to say anything derogatory against the judge being vetted, and that person’s memory is less than reputable, speaks volumes. You have to wonder how long the American people are going to put up with watching their tax dollars wasted financing this three-ring circus. Yes, that’s the way trials are, because this is more than a committee to review the qualifications of this new judge, they have put him under the hot light. Trials have a way of flipping everything upside down, they take the truth and they stretch it so thin you could hardly recognize it. Trials have been known to do everything to circumvent the law rather than uphold it.
We can say the same thing about the trials we go through in our own life. When we go through temptations and trials it has a way of flipping our faith upside down. When we face difficult times, we often stop and pray to be rescued from it, but do we have faith that our prayer will be answered? Is there always a question of whether we’re worthy of the prayer being answered, or if we prayed right, or if we need to earn it, or does God really care? More than not, I’ve heard the expression: Why does God let this happen? And my answer is always the same, God has given man free will, and with that free will man chooses to sin on a regular basis. Is God punishing us by putting us through adversity? That is not the way God works, but he will make you stronger because of it. Job was completely blindsided when God let Satan put him through great trials. He lost his children, his livestock, his home, his wife, and his health and was baffled at why. But God turned these great tragedies, sorrows, and trials into triumphs, joy, prosperity, and increased faith.
During the recent class reunion I attended, there was a memorial wall of the people in our class who had passed on. There was also a number of people who are missing and could not be located to attend the reunion. The people who were not mentioned were the spouses of our classmates who have passed on, or the children they have lost. One of the most refreshing things about attending the class reunion was many of our classmates spoke freely and often about their relationship with Christ. Something that kids in high school don’t talk much about, but seeing that life has tempered each and every one of us, now we speak freely about God. We have not seen the end of the trials and tribulations that we will go through, but we will be made stronger for it, if we trust in God and if we faint not.
As parents, it is important for us to teach our children that God never promised that we would not face difficult times. God did promise that He would walk with us, and when we grow too weary He will pick us up and carry us. It is our job as parents to teach our children these facts by reading the Word of God with them.
We as authors, almost always use some type of trial tribulation or adversity for our heroine or hero to overcome. Then we give them a life of, ‘happily ever after’ when they come through it. How often in our writings do we give God any glory for helping them through their troubled times? How many times in our real life do we give God the glory and thank Him for the many blessings we enjoy every day?
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;
Psalms 103:15-17
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
I Peter 1:7-9
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Galatians 6:9
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:28