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Only Genuine Faith Stands when Tested. And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses. Exodus 14:31  The voices of the people rang out over the waters of the Red Sea in glorious triumph. But soon their faith was tested. The Lord would know how much He could depend on His people to be true and loyal to Him. They went three days' journey into the wilderness and found no water. "And when the came to Marah, they could not drink the waters because they were bitter"... The people murmured against Moses , saying, What shall we drink?" Instead of trusting and fearing the Lord, believeing in Him under apparently discouraging circumstances, they cast reflections upon their leader. So people act in our generation. Satan's plan of temptation is always the same. While everything moves prosperously, people's faith are strong. But when suffering disaster, or disappointment comes, we lose heart. A faith that is dependent on circumstances or surroundings, that lives only when everything goes smoothly, is not a genuine faith. In his troubles Moses cried to the Lord. This is what the children of Israel, so recently delivered, ought to have done. The Lord heard the cry of His faithful servant, against whom the people had said so many bitter things. He showed Moses a tree,"which He had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet." It was not the virtue of the tree that turned the bitter waters sweet; it was the power of Him who was enshrouded in the pillar of cloud, the One who can do all things... Did the people then, after seeing appreciate and acknowledge God's blessings? Were their hearts filled wih gratitude and thanksgiving to Him? Did they take their time to have a praise time , as when they stood at the banks of the Red Sea? We have not been given evidence that their faith was strengthened by God's mercy, grace, and love towards them... When trials come to test us, when we cannot see an increase on prosperity and comfort before us, but a probable lessening of these things, when there is a pressure necessitating sacrifice on the part of us all, how shall we receive Satan's insinuations that we are going to have a hard time, that everything is going to pieces, that there is going to be sore trouble ahead for us because God doesn't care? It is then that we ought to gather up the fragments of all of heaven's blessings and tokens for good given us and humbly say: " Lord, I believe in THEE, I will trust in THEE as you promised... God bless. |
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It is then that we ought to gather up the fragments of all of heaven's blessings and tokens for good given us and humbly say: " Lord, I believe in THEE, I will trust in THEE as you promised... |
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