Genuine Proved Faith
1 Peter 1:3-7 (The Message)
What a God we have! And how fortunate we are to have him, this Father of our Master Jesus! Because Jesus was raised from the dead, we’ve been given a brand-new life and have everything to live for, including a future in heaven—and the future starts now! God is keeping careful watch over us and the future. The Day is coming when you’ll have it all—life healed and whole.
I know how great this makes you feel, even though you have to put up with every kind of aggravation in the meantime. Pure gold put in the fire comes out of it proved pure; genuine faith put through this suffering comes out proved genuine. When Jesus wraps this all up, it’s your faith, not your gold, that God will have on display as evidence of his victory.
So, last night after home cell, I got into bed, feeling like a fraud. Over the last couple of weeks, I have let the world get a bit more ingrained in my life again, and I have been standing on the cliff. Having to make a decision on whether I am going to jump right back into the worldly easy life, that I have been used to, or carry on with the seemingly difficult life of following Christ, and being an example to the people in my life.
So this morning, having had a bit of time between showering and having to wake up my Baby Girl to go to daycare, I read 1 Peter 1.
Thank the Lord for giving me this passage this morning, as it has been exactly what I have needed to get my but kicked into gear once again.
I ask all of you to please pray for me on this journey, as I sometimes really struggle to keep my focus where it needs to be and I really need to be kept accountable on this. I know the God has really big plans for me here on earth, and I really just want to start getting the courage to jump into what He wants me to do, irrespective of the financial consequences it will have.
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