Day 2724 of the 7 day Bible verse challenge.
1 Peter 1:7 NIV The proven genuineness of your faith. That's why we face the trials and challenges that push us, test us, beat us up a little bit. It's not because God is trying to break us down and crush us into submission. It's because our faith needs to be genuine, and what better way to test and see just how real our faith is than to test it? It's like back when we were in school. Our teachers didn't just assume we knew everything that they had taught us. They didn't just teach a few lessons and then hope for the best. There were tests where we had to prove that we had been paying attention, practicing, and that we'd actually learned something. Our faith is no different. God didn't just send Christ down here to teach us all a bunch of lessons hoping that we would find it in ourselves to be interested and pay attention. He sent Christ to bring a truth that we're required to live by. Whether or not anyone chooses to pay attention is on them. But we...