Headwinds Test Our Faith

This is the Breathe Meditation for the week. Written and produced to help you know love, and enjoy God, follow Him with your heart, and love like Jesus. This concludes six episodes looking at what the Bible says about how we can weather unavoidable headwinds and hardship. In this final episode, we will explore how headwinds and hardship test our faith. Without headwinds, our faith is untested. Why is that? We need to learn to wait. We have a need for endurance. Sharp sudden hardship is easily endured. When it drags on in its long and weary way year after monotonous year, returning day after day with the same dull routine of hopeless agony, the heart loses its strength. Streams in the Desert It is IN the wind where endurance tests and proves our faith. These trials are only to test your faith, to see whether or not it is strong and pure. It is being tested as fire tests gold and purifies it. 1 Peter 1:7 TLB It is with the eyes of faith that we come to know that God causes all things to work together for the good to those who love God. Romans 8:28 TLB Headwinds and hardship: …stretch us by taking us out of our comfort zone. …make us limber as we learn to go with the flow. …expand our reach when we step out by faith. …increases our capacity to endure. Why is faith so important? It is the certainty that Who we hope for is waiting for us, even though we cannot see it up ahead. Without faith it is impossible to know love and enjoy God, to follow Him with your heart, and to love like Jesus. Hebrews 11:6 paraphrase Lean into the headwind you are facing today. Pray What small steps of faith have You planned for me today Lord? Help me with eyes of faith to recognize them. With the feet of faith that I would take that first step and another and another. With faith in my heart trusting You precede me I go into this day. Thank you!