If you and I pass to a time when our faith is being sorely tried, really being put through it, let us try, or ask the Lord to help us to adjust ourselves to this: "for this is not unto death, but unto Life". This is not meant or allowed by the Lord to bring an end in death. This is allowed, or meant by the Lord, to bring us into larger Life yet. If only we could have that faith, we would rob the dark times and the difficult times of their deathliness, and make them the very ground upon which we might come into newness of Life through fresh victories of faith. Faith is the way to Life through trial, testing, suffering, adversity.
