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Hello youths!

Why is it that nobody is posting anything here.. Nothing to share mehh.. hahax

Anyway..

Since I’m not coming for youth service this coming Saturday, i’m going to share with all of you what I’ve read today.

“You can't have a testimony without a test.”

“A testimony is often a way of sharing what God has done in a person's life. However, in order to have a testimony there’s always a test through which that person had to persevere.”

From what I have read and understand and learnt, we are told to rejoice when we are facing problems/trials/affliction but we rejoice not because of the problems itself but because of the outcome or the end result of the trials. We must look the trials we are facing in a positive way because we know that it is a test of our faith and the testing of our faith develops perseverance. In James 1:4, says, "Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. "

In other words, we can rejoice/have joy during trials because we know that they help make us mature and complete. Thus refining us into the person God wants us to be.

If you read on a few verses later in James 1:12 we are told the reward of enduring difficult times, “Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.”

The everyday life and the challenging events that we go through each day is the thing that refines us and make us more like Christ and in 1 Peter 1:6-7, says that one of the purposes of going through grief and trials is so that our faith can grow and be proven real.

Therefore, a real testimony of growing in faith and becoming like Christ requires going through a test. So, instead of despising your tests and trials, look forward to your testimony; after all, you can't have a testimony without a test.

And lastly, I would like to say good job to those who have shared their testimony because you’ve passed your test! Hahax! :P