Staying faithful when Life is difficult

November 14, 2010

How can disciples remain faithful to God in the face of hardships and trials?

Saw an interesting quotation this week that read, “Everything will be okay in the end. If everything is not okay, it is not the end.”

Not a bad advice if you are facing a bad situation; and quite a biblical way to handle life’s problems.

To trust God and serve Him faithfully in times of great trials calls for faith. This faith requires that we take our eyes off life’s physical circumstances to the Supernatural invisible God of life.

During times of great stress and struggles, we put our hope in God and pray that everything will work out well in the end. However, if in spite of our petitions and prayers, things fail to change for the better and sometimes even if it takes a turn for the worse, we must not lose heart.

Trials and difficulties cannot put a full stop to our lives. Even if everything is not okay, it is not the end.

To remain faithful disciples of Jesus, we must learn to shift our focus from the huge mountains to the God of the mountains. To live faithfully, we learn to discern the Presence of the Invisible in the pressures of the visible. Then we can declare as Habakkuk did in Habakkuk 3:17-19,

“Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls,
yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior.
The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
He enables me to tread on the heights.”