Deep waters

Troubled on all sides? Temptations beckoning at the door? The Bible is full of stories where the heroes faced much more than the average person will encounter in the way of struggles, and their stories are living examples of how each one overcame them.

Like Job, David, Paul, Daniel, Joseph and many other saints from old, they leave us examples of their individual trials that run from devastating hardship to temptation to even unjust persecution. With their dire troubles—even unto death—they maintained an abiding faith as they rested in the spiritual arms of God.

Some by the fire and some by the flood…but all through the blood of Jesus we’re sifted and refined like choice silver and gold. Like all of them, we are given hope that as they survived their trials to tell the tale–only through the power of God—we are able, too.

But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint ~ Isaiah 40:31