You’re on Trial, August 2, 2011

You’re on Trial

Reading: I Peter 1:6-7, 6In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

Men, how strong is your faith? Many people believe that their faith is strong until something happens that causes one to question how God could allow something to happen. For instance, I know of multiple situations where a child has died in a family and it has ripped the family to shreds. They turn their back on God and cannot allow their faith to believe that God could allow that to happen. Yet, I see another family, whom I know, who had nine children and lost their six youngest children in a car fire in which the parents escaped with severe burns. Afterwards, they were on national television proclaiming God’s faithfulness even through this tragedy. Men, we are on trial. Every test, every trial is to prove that your faith is genuine. It’s easy to say that you believe something; it’s a different story when it’s put to the test in a very hurtful way.

So, how strong is your faith? What could happen that might shake your faith?



With all the religions in the world, if someone walked up to you from a different religion and performed, what appeared to be a miracle right before your eyes, would it shake your faith?

Do you value your faith as much as God values your faith, in that, it is worth going through trials, struggles and hurts to refine your faith and strengthen it in Him?

What trials are you going through right now, and how can you rest in Him that He was a purpose and how can you prove your faith in God throughout it?
REVIEW

How were you able to trust God and allow God to increase your faith through the trials that you’re experiencing?


How did this impact the trials or struggles that you’re experiencing?