My Faith Is In Him

I was recently talking to someone about an aspect of faith. This being about our faith in God during good times and bad. How we often are stongest in our faith and relationship with God when times are good. However, when times are bad or difficult we tend to have questions/prayers that go unanswered. And, in doing so are faith is weakened or tested. Now, I see two ways of looking at this. The first being that we are given these hard times to strengthen our relationship with God. If we are able to 'hang in there' and hand over our lives to God's will are faith is ultamately more secure. The trouble is doing this. We for some reason expect times to always be good. It is a flaw as humans and sinners that we should try to overcome. Though, totally not the easiest of tasks. This is directly correlated to the second way of looking at it... that is we are manipulated by evil, the devil. He wants our faith to be tested. He wants us to turn our backs on God. To do this he has to play some part of a possible demise. These might be the tests that we have to overcome. They are not tests from God but tricks from the devil to try and make it seem as if God were testing our strength in faith with Him. I hope that makes sense. In my head it does anyway. I believe I am able to understand this because of continual prayer about keeping my faith strong. I will not be deceived by any sort hard time (devil's trick) to waver in my faith. I pray for continual strength from God to over come any such deception. Just as the poem "footprints in the sand" points out God will carry us through our hardest and most trying times of life. My faith is in Him!