Beautiful Poem from a Friend

The Testing Of Our Faith

There is only one way for faith to be tested

and that way is through conflict or strife.

For faith isn't "real" until you have to cling to it

through the storms of this earthly life.

And faith can't be strengthened any other way

except to trust Him against all the odds.

For faith will require you tune out the world's voices

so you can listen to the voice of your God.

Faith can also be tested in very personal ways

with God drawing a line like a fence.

And it's there you make a choice to believe what He says

and not your own kind of frail, common sense.

Because it's not on the mountain tops of worldly successes

that faith is seen for its beauty and fire,

But it's down in the valley, where we climb and we labor

while looking upward with faith and desire.

And when faith is tested through the passage of time

and through the hardest, most difficult lessons,

It changes and grows till it's purified & perfected

and more valued than all your possessions.

That faith makes you stronger and able to see God better

because your confidence is no longer on you.

But rather on the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ

and His power to be faithful and true.

© Sheila Gosney

"My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing." James 1:2-4 NKJV

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible." Hebrews 11:1-3 NKJV

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