Saturday – Open Topic

Reading – 1 Peter 1:1-12

Highlight Verse:

“These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.”
‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭1‬:‭7‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Institutions would have me accept that what they believe about God is the only possible truth.

Everything they teach is based on this one assumption.

I don’t have that kind of faith.

What they believe about God is that He doesn’t exist.

Everything they believe about how the Earth and everything on it came to be is based on the assumption that there is no God.

They believe this with such passion that anyone who disagrees with this assumption is banned from teaching.

They teach their theories as facts.

And if God does exist, their theories fall apart.

Their faith is flawed.

I wrote recently about Creation as the proof that there is a Creator.

I could go on for many pages about that, but I’d like to look at the situation a little differently.

The secular science education establishment has become as religiously zealous about science excluding God as churches in the dark ages were about following their rules.

They leave no room for questioning their assumptions.

To the most ardent of them, their theories are hard facts “proven” by their evidence.

I would suggest that their attitude will come back to bite them.

We were made for faith.

Where there is no room for doubt or disagreement, human intellect dies.

I offer this backwards logic as an encouragement to those who have ever had their faith tested. I would say that if you have never questioned your faith in God, then it has never been tested and is not as strong as it could be.

It is through tests of faith that our faith emerges victorious and strong.

So, when your thoughts turn to doubt, push in and learn from them. Face those difficult questions with an open mind. Find the answers through the Bible. And build a faith that can bounce back when the lies of the devil assault it.

How has your faith been tested?
What brought you through that test?