How easily can you display faith in a hard time?  I know that it is really easy to talk about how great faith is when everything is going great.  The good times usually roll, and we don’t realize that at some point in the near future, we are going to get kicked in the face by life.  It’s at this point that I ask you, how easily can you display faith?  It’s one thing to just say, “I have faith that God will get me through this,” But it is a completely different thing to actually live it.  I find myself asking the same question over and over, “Do I have enough faith that God will get me through the tough times?”  It’s so hard to see through all this darkness that the world is throwing at us, and to see the light that is heaven which awaits us.  When Paul wrote,

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. (1 Corinthians 13:13)

I think of three things together that will get me through any tough time that I run into.  I see three things together that “abide” (according to another translation).  What a great word!  What abides?  Faith.  Hope.  Love.

These things “abide” within me, these things transcend all the mess that my life is and turns it into something great…something to look forward to.  Remember that.  Remember when you hit a brick wall, and you’re not in a good place, remember what abides.  Help them to abide.