Have you ever pushed things off until you couldn’t anymore? (sort of like I did with this Thursday thought that is now be written on a Friday!) Just trying to stave off the potential for not having to go through something? If you have, then you know how it feels when it actually happens, and you have to go through it.

As a church we have been looking at the 7 letters in Revelation to the churches of Asia Minor. The apostle John was given the messages by Jesus while John was on an island in a penal colony due to his apparent non obedience to the Roman rulers of the time. Basically, he was preaching and teaching what Jesus taught and said and was banished for it.

But in these letters, we get to the point of my initial paragraph. In these letters we find Jesus calling out these churches to do better. To hold on. To live their faith in all situations. And to continuing look to God’s word for the truth of any situation.

See in any type of harsh or hard situation, it’s the faith that we use during those times that keeps us focused on the right track – and building faith. Isn’t it true that when you are doing well, when things are not making you “go through something” you don’t really need to stand on your faith, or even count on it.

So, we go through things. Even things we don’t like. Because God isn’t finished with us yet. He is always shaping and molding, wanting us to seek Him in ALL things. Even the hard to go through things.

At our church we have been saying, sure, its easy to hear the things that you want to hear and process those. But it’s the things that we NEED to hear, that can be hard to get through.

I challenge us today to continue to put our faith in the One who loves us above all others. To have faith that builds, and capitalize on that even in those harsh, hard times. For He Never Fails, and He Won’t!!

Peace,

PTV