How does your Faith stand today?  Is it willing to be considered foolish in the eyes of the world, set dead against all ominous forebodings when God commands you to trust Him unreservedly and continually until the promise He has given you is fulfilled?

Jesus may be Testing your devotion to Him.  Or he may allow you to go through a trial so that you can be a truly humble and effective minister to another going through the same trial.  God always has grand purposes.  We ought to be mindful of the Lord in every circumstance and never doubt His love and His promises.  Peter tells us by the Holy Spirit that, “the trying of your faith” is actually more precious (or worth more) than gold!  The trials sent by or allowed by the Lord are to develop a spiritual backbone in us as it were.  Without testing, our faith is immature and shifting as the sand on the dune.  God’s grand design however, is to make our faith like an immoveable rock like our Lord Himself!

Here are some things to do when under severe testing:

Understand
God is allowing your faith to be tested so that it can grow even   stronger.  His love in you must be perfected. We must all enter Heaven by much tribulation.  He may well be preparing you to help others in similar need and circumstance also.  He is still our Loving Father!

Request
Special grace to endure and overcome so that God will be glorified.  He is All-Powerful and Able!

Believe
The Lord will fulfill His promise soon enough.  He is Faithful!

Praise
Give thanks for God’s Wisdom, Power and Affection for you, remembering and acknowledging that all things indeed work together for good to them that love God and are called according to His Purpose.  He is Glorious!.

The Lord Jesus Christ has greater things planned for His obedient children both in this age and for all Eternity than can possibly be conceived by our limited human imagination.