Post by MIRIAM JACOB on Dec 9, 2007 7:10:12 GMT -5
The Testing Of Our Faith
There is only one way for faith to be tested
and that way is through conflict or strife.
For faith isn't "real" until you have to cling to it
through the storms of this earthly life.
And faith can't be strengthened any other way
except to trust Him against all the odds.
For faith will require you tune out the world's voices
so you can listen to the voice of your God.
Faith can also be tested in very personal ways
with God drawing a line like a fence.
And it's there you make a choice to believe what He says
and not your own kind of frail, common sense.
Because it's not on the mountain tops of worldly successes
that faith is seen for its beauty and fire,
But it's down in the valley, where we climb and we labor
while looking upward with faith and desire.
And when faith is tested through the passage of time
and through the hardest, most difficult lessons,
It changes and grows till it's purified & perfected
and more valued than all your possessions.
That faith makes you stronger and able to see God better
because your confidence is no longer on you.
But rather on the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ
and His power to be faithful and true.
© Sheila Gosney
There is only one way for faith to be tested
and that way is through conflict or strife.
For faith isn't "real" until you have to cling to it
through the storms of this earthly life.
And faith can't be strengthened any other way
except to trust Him against all the odds.
For faith will require you tune out the world's voices
so you can listen to the voice of your God.
Faith can also be tested in very personal ways
with God drawing a line like a fence.
And it's there you make a choice to believe what He says
and not your own kind of frail, common sense.
Because it's not on the mountain tops of worldly successes
that faith is seen for its beauty and fire,
But it's down in the valley, where we climb and we labor
while looking upward with faith and desire.
And when faith is tested through the passage of time
and through the hardest, most difficult lessons,
It changes and grows till it's purified & perfected
and more valued than all your possessions.
That faith makes you stronger and able to see God better
because your confidence is no longer on you.
But rather on the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ
and His power to be faithful and true.
© Sheila Gosney