We have the idea that God rewards us for our faith. This might be true in the initial stages of our walk with him, but we don\u2019t earn anything by faith. Faith brings us into right relationship with God and gives God his opportunity.<\/p>\n
If you are walking with God, he will often knock the bottom out of your experience in order to bring you into immediate contact with him. God wants you to understand that it\u2019s a life of \u0432\u0435\u0440\u0430<\/em>, not of emotional enjoyment of his blessings. Your earlier life of faith was narrow and intense, settled around a little sunspot of experience that had as much sensibleness as faith in it; it was full of light and sweetness. Then God withdrew his blessings\u2014not all of them, just those you were conscious of\u2014to teach you to walk by faith. Now you are worth far more to him than you were in your days of conscious delight and thrilling testimony.<\/p>\n Faith by its very nature must be tried. The real trial of faith isn\u2019t that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God\u2019s character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of inexpressible isolation. Never confound the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life. Much that we call the trial of faith is the inevitable result of being alive. In the Bible, faith means trusting God in the face of everything that contradicts him. Faith says, \u201cNo matter what God does, I will remain true to his character.\u201d \u201cThough he slay me, yet will I hope in him\u201d (Job 13:15): this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We have the idea that God rewards us for our faith. This might be true in the initial stages of our walk with him, but we don\u2019t earn anything by faith. Faith …<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2346,"template":"","collection":[40],"class_list":{"0":"post-2736","1":"modern-classic","2":"type-modern-classic","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"collection-holiness"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic\/2736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/modern-classic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic\/2736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=2736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}