Hold Up Wednesday

Do you know or have you realized that untested faith is unreliable faith? It is not until your faith is tested in fire (trials, tribulations, and test) that we truly know if we believe in what we profess. I am a fond believer that faith and Christian character is not forged in feathers, when everything is going well, no worries, no attacks, and no test, but they are forged in the testing of your faith and actions. Just as it requires much heat to burn the impurities out of gold and make its true luster and shine to come forth. WE as followers and believers are the same as the gold that is being refined and defined: it sometimes requires extreme heat for out imperfections to be burned away and our real identity as a mature Christian to come to the surface. Scripture reminds us “Consider it pure joy, my brother’s, whenever  ...