Romans 5:3-5
Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)
3 But not only that, let us also boast in our troubles;
because we know that trouble produces endurance,
4 endurance produces character, and character produces
hope; 5 and this hope does not let us down, because God’s love for us has
already been poured out in our hearts through the Ruach HaKodesh who has been
given to us.
Sometimes the weight of the world can become so heavy we
have a tendency not to take heed to the words of the Apostle Paul. We take
suffering as punishment we think we have done something that has brought the
despair upon us. I am here today to tell you my fellow Christian this is not
always the case. We as Christians on the very day we are born again step into a
realm where the enemy is fighting day and night for our souls. Satan does not
grow weary, he grows angry when he is not succeeding but not weary. He has
nothing to do but what he is doing. What is he doing, what is his goal? To
destroy our faith in God.
Some of us are up for the battle while others bow to the
weakness, some do not bend knee in prayer to Christ, so he can make you strong.
Some bow to the world they give in to the sadness, unhappiness, depression,
stress, and in that you bow to Satan. You yield to your adversary like an
unsaved child. This is when Satan succeeds he is accomplishing destroying your
faith. Faith is a gift from God it is not generated by people Satan knows this, and he wants to strip you of it. Heb 12:2 says, Jesus, the author and perfecter
of faith" And Rom 12:3 says; God has allotted to each a measure of faith.
These two verses clearly tell us that faith is not something that we do or a
presence of mind that we develop, but that faith is a gift from God. Rom 10:17
says, faith comes from hearing and hearing by the word of Christ. So faith is a
gift from God that we receive from the word of Christ, which in this dispensation
we get from the Bible rather than from a burning bush. So in His time He will
allot faith to us as needed from the word of the Bible. In 2 Cor 10:15 we see
that faith can grow, so as we study the Bible God can add to our faith.
If we live in fear and despair how can we keep obtaining
faith in God? How can we act on faith when we doubt? We cannot and in the
process we block his blessings, we fall out of his will and protection. Every
time you open your Bible Satan cringes, every time you grow in your faith he
cringes. Remember he does not grow weary, he grows angry. The angrier he gets
the harder he comes at you. This is when the battle becomes a war. So if we
just listen to the words of Apostle Paul
learn how to endure every test the Lord places before us. Good and bad
it is for His glory and His ALONE. Do not yield but kneel, thank God for the
faith he has given freely, pick up your sword which is the Holy Bible let
Christ strengthen you. We may stumble in the battle but with our King Yeshua we
will win the war!
For His Glory!