When life has you at your lowest, when depression and pain is all you feel, that’s when your faith, when God will peer into your heart and see what’s truly there. When you’re all alone and it seems like tomorrow will never come. “Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.” It’s easy to say you have faith when life is love and roses. “He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD. Deuteronomy 8:2-5 “You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. The number of times the testing of faith is mentioned in scripture is many. Just as David would have to trust in God, believe God’s intentions would always be in the promise that was made to David to be King. David would spend the next 20 years running for his life, fighting for it, his faith being tested over and over. Isaiah 48:10 “Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.” When King David was a young boy he made a name for himself by killing Goliath with nothing but a sling. We don’t always know why bad things happen, we don’t always know why our lives can go from what seems like long stretches of happiness to spin out of control to chaos. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.” When life is hard, when spiritual warfare is well underway, those of faith are tested on the spiritual battlefield.
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James 1:2-4 “Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
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Just as the sword it placed in fire and pounded, our faith is also tested in a similar fashion. It’s no surprise that scripture teaches us how our faith is tempered. When a sword is made in the traditional sense it is placed in fire, pounded, shaped, heated, cooled, pounded on more.