The Trial of Faith

Life has a way of driving my faith dangerously close to the edge. I'll ask myself, If God is good, why did this happen? If God is all-powerful, why didn't He stop this? If God really loves me, why am I not happier?
Questions like this quickly dampen my spiritual enthusiasm and threaten to leave my faith stale and stoic. For me, I grin and bear it, and hope that no one ever asks me these questions. I may even come to believe that in order to maintain spiritual sanity, I need to park my brains and questions outside the door and separate the spiritual realm from the realities of life.
But disconnecting through denial falsely assumes that all the answers are found in the world. If I were to believe that this world is a place where comfort, happiness, and peace should be found, I'll never understand why bad things happen.

Thats why being a Christian doesn't mean fewer hassles and hardships. Sometimes it means more. There will be resistance – from family, from coworkers, and, worst, from carnal Christians. But I'm not worrying too much, because I'm putting my faith in Him.

I'm sure many people like me do faced doubt or uncertainty or has been perplexed as to why God did not work in a certain way or may be in the midst of God's working where they like me can't see the big picture. Well, FAITH...

However sometimes, many of us here including me do have the idea that God rewards us for our faith, and it may be so in the initial stages. But the fact is we don't earn anything from faith – it only brings us into a right relationship with God and gives Him His opportunity to work. Yet God frequently has to knock the bottom out of my experience as His saint to get me in direct contact with Himself. God wants me to understand that it is a life of faith, not a life of emotional enjoyment full of light and sweetness. But rather, He Himself withdrew His conscious blessings to teach me to "walk by faith" as I'm worth much more to Him now that the days of conscious delight with my thrilling testimony.

Faith by its very nature must be tested and tried. And the real trial or faith is not to find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character must be proven as trustworthy in each and everyone of our minds. Faith being worked out into reality must experience times of unbroken isolation. Never confuse the trail of faith with the ordinary disciple of life, because a great deal of what we call the trail of faith is the inevitable result of being alive.

Sometimes this happens to me, "I begin to pray, and then I start to doubt," This is the enemy attacking me. I'm sharing this to alleviate guilt if any of you're reading this had ever experienced that. But here’s what to do when that happens: get plugged back into the power source of prayer. That's the Lord. Confess to Him your areas of doubt and ask Him to increase your faith. And He will!
At times, i do sensed a growing distance from the Lord or the need to bring some burden before Him that I've been carrying around myself. The only solution to it is to spent some quiet time with Him alone. In that time, pour out whatever that troubles my heart to Him in faith. If God is speaking to me, I'm sure that will be the moment.