“In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes,though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ.” 1 Peter 1:67All of us, at a certain season of our Christian walk, will go into what I call a "Desert Experience" or sometimes we called it the "valley experience" based on Psalms 23. This are those times of trial or testing, when we discover that God is very near.
Our faith is so valuable to God that He frequently tests it. God does not want a puppet on a string! He wants us to serve Him of our own free will. He wants us to serve Him in faith not for emotional rewards. He will make opportunities in our life to grow our faith. He not only does this through allowing various trials to come into our life, but sometimes He seems to withdraw and remain silent for periods of time. Times like that, we will be like living in a solitude and we no longer have any emotional or “supernatural” experiences. We may not hear the Lord speak to you for some time. That’s because God wants to grow our faith. He wants us to determine that we will serve Him, no matter what.
When we have gone through the desert of hardship, God uses us to more effectively minister to others. Do we find ourselves in a "desert experience"? Maybe God has some training in mind for us. Remember, we can never be too small for God to use; only too big.
Be Blessed.
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