Life can feel like a rollercoaster ride. At times it can be very scary, at other times it can be fun. When we get scared it’s very important to not lose faith. We must keep the faith to remain spiritually strong. It helps us rise above adversity by knowing in our heart, better times will come. Our faith is challenged by the trials and tribulations we encounter. We lose faith because we have difficulty understanding why things go horribly wrong. But ironically, we always seem to have just enough faith to blame or cuss God. When we are weak in faith, the devil uses the opportunity to shoot those fiery arrows of doubt. Then, while in a state of self-pity and doubt, just as quickly as things went horribly wrong, they go wonderfully right, and we regain our faith. When things are going wonderfully right, do we take the opportunity to praise and thank God as quickly as we blamed or cussed God for our troubles?
Faith is at the very core of Christianity. The word faith is synonymous with belief and trust. Hebrews 11:1–3 (NLT) says, “Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see. Through their faith, the people in days of old earned a good reputation. By faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at God’s command, that what we now see did not come from anything that can be seen.”
Author’s comments: Faith requires we step out of our comfort zone to believe in something we can’t fully see or understand. Ironically, because of our God-given ability to acquire knowledge, we think we should be able to figure everything out. The mind literally gets in the way of faith because Satan uses the thought processes to spiritually attack, causing us to have doubt and question our faith.
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