February 1st, 2026~Apply Permanent Faith To Every Temporary Trial✨

Have a Blessed 1st Sunday and 1st day in February with Jesus. ❄️Seek Him First. Meditate on 1 Peter 1.  Peter mentions trials and suffering several times in this letter. All believers face such trials when they let their light shine into the darkness.

We must accept trials as part of the refining process that burns away impurities and prepares us to meet Christ. When gold is heated, impurities float to the top and can be skimmed off. Likewise, our trials, struggles, and persecutions refine us by burning away sinful impurities; this makes our faith purer and stronger so that we can be more useful to God.

Instead of asking, Why me? We should react to suffering with a new set of responses:

1. Confidence that God knows, plans and direct our lives for our good and His glory. God always provides His love and strength for us and leads us toward a better future.

2. Perseverance when facing grief, anger, sorrow and pain. We express grief, but we don’t give in to bitterness and despair.

3. Courage because with Jesus as Savior, we need not be afraid. He who suffered for us will not abandon us. Jesus carries us through everything.🙏🏾

“In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,”

‭‭I Peter‬ ‭1‬:‭6‬-‭7‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

(Study from Life Application Study Bible)