How to Build True Faith in Times of Hardships
God says, “While undergoing trials, it is normal for people to be weak, or to have negativity within them, or to lack clarity on God’s will or their path for practice. But in any case, you must have faith in God’s work, and not deny God, just like Job. Although Job was weak and cursed the day of his own birth, he did not deny that all things in human life were bestowed by Jehovah, and that Jehovah is also the One to take them all away. No matter how he was tested, he maintained this belief. In your experience, no matter what refinement you undergo through God’s words, what God requires of mankind, in brief, is their faith and their love for Him. What He perfects by working in this way is people’s faith, love, and aspirations. God does the work of perfection on people, and they cannot see it, cannot feel it; under such circumstances, your faith is required. People’s faith is required when something cannot be seen by the naked eye, and your faith is required when you cannot let go of your own notions. When you do not have clarity about God’s work, what is required of you is to have faith and to take a firm stance and stand witness. When Job reached this point, God appeared to him and spoke to him. That is, it is only from within your faith that you will be able to see God, and when you have faith God will perfect you. Without faith, He cannot do this. God will bestow upon you whatever you hope to gain. If you do not have faith, then you cannot be perfected and you will be unable to see God’s actions, much less His omnipotence. When you have faith that you will see His actions in your practical experience, then God will appear to you, and He will enlighten and guide you from within. Without that faith, God will be unable to do that. If you have lost hope in God, how will you be able to experience His work? Therefore, only when you have faith and you do not harbor doubts toward God, only when you have true faith in Him no matter what He does, will He enlighten and illuminate you through your experiences, and only then will you be able to see His actions. These things are all achieved through faith. Faith comes only through refinement, and in the absence of refinement, faith cannot develop.”
From God’s words we see that genuine faith is built in hardships and trials. Take Job as an example, he lost all of his possessions and his children within a single day, and after that became completely covered in boils. However, he didn’t utter a single word of complaint to God, but instead, he prostrated himself in worship of God and blessed the name of God. How did he achieve this? He believed that all things are in God’s charge. Meanwhile, he had the sense of reason a created being should possess, thinking that everything he had was given him by God so it was natural for God to take everything from him. So he could stand witness to God in such a great trial and thus was doubly blessed by God. In real life, no matter what difficulty or setback we encounter, we don’t be discouraged and disappointed, but should imitate Job. If we believe that all things are under God’s rule and everything God does is good, if we pray to God and seek God’s will with a heart of obeying, and truly believe in God, we will see God’s wondrous deeds.
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