“The darker it gets, the brighter our faith can shine.”

A thought by Steven Furtick (2010-09-21) from his book, Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible (p. 30). Multnomah Books. Kindle Edition.

We don’t usually have faith when things are going great.  What we usually have is credit.  We usually take credit for how much we have accomplished.  “Wow, look how smart I am.”  Or we give credit to the wrong thing. 

Now here is the secret in handling the dark times.  If we give God credit for the good in the good times not ourselves or whatever political party is in power then when the dark times come, which they will, our faith will be strong enough to handle the dark times, our faith will shine bright.  How we Christians are handling these dark days tells a lot about how we handled the good days.  Our faith in these darks days should be brightest if our faith is and has been in Him.

Somehow we need to see that the darker life gets is the best time to show that our faith really makes a difference.  But if we are putting our total faith in who is in power politically or how much we have in the bank then I understand our despair.  But a Christian’s faith is not in who is in power politically or how much we have saved but in God.  We should be excited about this time not in despair because our faith shines brightest in the dark. 

Do you know where the light of the gospel is shining brightest?  It is shining brightest in Communist China, in Muslim countries, in the poverty of India but not in the United States.   Yes we are going through some tough times here right now but because we have been spoiled our faith is weak and we are complaining and blaming and not shining.

But God has given us a tremendous opportunity to have our faith shine bright.  Let’s not waist these dark times but use them to truly show that faith does make the difference.  Let’s let our faith shine brighter during these dark days.

So how bright is your faith shining