DEEPEN YOUR WALK WITH GOD

Adversity destroys superficial faith.

God calls us to walk closely to Him; He wants us to truly love Him and not just what He can provide. Only with fire will all of that which is false be revealed. When God gets ready to bring us to a deeper place in some area of our life, He allows fire to come into our lives to burn away and consume the fluff that is in our heart and devotion. It is in the midst of your trials you have to decide to continue on with God on a deeper level of understanding and devotion or draw back from Him into sin. Job lost everything and he was going to either curse God and die or endure until the Lord either killed him or brought him out. Job recommitted his life to God even though God was allowing him to be persecuted, afflicted in every way, and be wrongfully accused by his friends. The more we check our motives for serving God, the less God’s fire hurts us.

We are called to the glorious call of being kings and priests for God and manifest His promises. This is possible because of the sin debt that Jesus paid for us but don’t ever think that it’s absolutely free. Salvation is a free gift but walking in the promises of the kingdom requires our ambitions, our comforts, our passions, and our resources in exchange. We have to come to the place where we seek to not only take part in Christ’s inheritance and blessings but we are willing to take part in His sufferings. Life only comes through the process of dying, like a caterpillar dies to give way to a beautiful butterfly.

The same is true for us. You know the saying, “No pain, no gain!” God’s got wondrous plans and promises in store for us. While you’re going through trials, please remember to seek God’s perspective and try to remember some of these specific reasons that God allows suffering to come upon us. Let’s keep on trusting God and pressing further into the peace that passes all understanding and that joy that’s unspeakable. It’s all in Him.