The Trial of Our Faith Is More Precious
than Gold
Peter – the champion of long suffering and great council,
with only a few verses he can change perspective. Peter taught us to remember
Christ, his atonement, crucifixion, and resurrection in that Christ suffered
for all mankind no matter your circumstances—he has felt your pain. Not only
did Christ suffer, but he overcame this suffering through the micle we know as
the resurrection. His victory over death is grace and his sacrifice was mercy;
our troubles should seem light in comparison.
Peter’s message of optimism lies in his faith in Christ and
the peace it brings—even in the face of adversity and heartache. Peter teaches
us to turn the other check and reminds us that God has empowered us to overcome
the temptations of our struggles. God the Father even went as far as to
foreordain us with this endowment, but left it up to us to realize it threw the
veil of mortality.
The trials we face are like the refiners fire—each one is
meant to teach us a lesson and help us sanctify our Lord. Peter taught that our
suffering for Christ sake can bring about conversion in others. As we develop Christ
like attributes, other will see Christ in us and desire to have the Spirit
also. There is CD titled “The Missionary Next Door,” on it the host of a youth
fireside Diana Hoelsher recounts a childhood experience. A non-member friend of
hers was giving her a hard time for her beliefs, she stood her ground and
suffered it, but not without expressing her feelings on the mater. Her stance
aloud her friend to confess he’d only been giving her such a hard time because
he desired to have what she had too. His abuse was perhaps misguided, but the
end result was far greater than the bullying he issued and she endured.
Peter’s message seems to be that we can endure hard things
and be better for it. God loves us and will chasten us as needed, but something
I have to remember is not every struggle I encounter is a trail of God,
sometimes the sometimes they are merely the consequences of poor choices. Nevertheless
remember that Christ endured all things so that we would not have to endure
them alone. Call upon God and remember him always.
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