Your faith is proved genuine when you have confidence in Christ during a painful trial.
Hi, I’m Joni Eareckson Tada. And my friends Mel and Charlotte support our ministry, and they live out in the California desert near the Lost Dutchman Mine. Recently, they sent me a tiny gold nugget—just the size of a small pea. But I’m not about to cash it in. No, I put it up on the shelf above my desk so I could look at it and always be reminded of 1 Peter 1 where it says that, “[Trials] have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.” Oh friend, just think. Our faith is proved genuine when we have confidence in Christ during a painful trial. What’s more, that same confidence in Christ will result in praise and honor and glory to God when our Savior returns. So, prove your faith genuine—it’s a gift you can give to Jesus on his coronation day.
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