Faith Fertilizer
Have faith in God. Mark 11:22
• Challenges. . .
• Troubles…
• Trials. . .
Manure stinks! But, for
our plants to grow and thrive—we have to bear the smell. And, in order for our
faith to grow, we need stinky circumstances.
Problems are Faith Fertilizer!
In
the middle of trouble, no one wants to hear—problems grow faith. Knowing this
doesn’t make our problems any easier to go through. But if we think about it,
it’s during these hard times that we focus more on the One who can bring about
a change. This is when we find out about the stability of our faith, as it’s
challenged to step higher. There’s no sense thinking if we had enough faith we
wouldn’t have any problems. In John 16:33, Jesus said we will have
tribulation.
I
haven’t met anyone with a problem free life. Can you imagine how arrogantly
prideful some of us would be if we had a problem free life? It wouldn’t take
too long before we would start taking things for granted, and becoming
judgmental to those going through difficulties. We would probably think we can
do fine without God.
Fertilizer
is good for plants, but if given too much—they die. I’m so glad that God knows the
exact amount of “fertilizer” that we can handle. It says in II Corinthians
10:13 (AMP) we can trust God
not to allow us to be tempted beyond our ability to endure.
Seeing
our problems as faith fertilizer gives us a different outlook on the notorious question:
Why me?
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