The other side of faith......

thanks to joash, managed to listen last sun's sermon.
hmm.... feel like writing some thots....

The other side of faith (of course not the other side of my wife :P) the faith may seem worthless in eyes of many people, worse, some will just find this faith ridiculous.... some think itz foolishness.... so is it worth to keep this faith?? i once remember a preacher mentioned b4 dat, our eternal rest with Jesus is from the preparation we have on earth. what preparation? in life we earn $$ to keep in bank accounts & save them, to prepare for future needs.... for me, maybe diving needs :P then soon for a kid expenses, maybe for a house or car, or maybe for rainy days..... that is the preparation we do in life... get prepared so dat when the time comes, we have the resources to use.... so back to preparations for the eternal rest with Jesus, to prepare ourselves pleasing before Him, so dat we can get used to the eternal rest, hmm... ps Willoughby preach in the begining... rehearsal!!.... hmm.... datz means BE prepared. Preparing to meet the King of kings.... preparing ourselves the way He desires.... preparing for dat glorious day that we hear Him say..."Well done, my faithful servant"... preparing ourselves so that the moment we meet him, we won't hide ourselves just like Adam and Eve..... All these preparations comes down to the other side of faith.

By faith, we can please Him, by faith we know our salvation is secure, by faith we know He will never leave us.... this is the rewarding side of the faith.... the side when all good guys will emerge as winners, which everybody enjoys & desires to know. But the other side of faith is the price we pay for.... which people may not understand, which people are afraid to pay.... well, though i really blessed right now not to worry about persecution, about going hungry without food, having terminal illness, losing loved ones or maybe not need worry to go through lions or fire. But this leads me to a thought, if 1 day this kind of test really comes, for me to pay my price for my faith, how wil i pay? With faith, anger, depression or??

so happened i've been reading Job recently, i sense some frustration in Job, for nothing he done wrong, he lost everything within a day and at the end, he didn't have any answer for all his questions for God. but 1 thing is, watever happened, he refused to dishonour the Almighty, even to the point he witness his own wife cursing God.... this is the other side of faith. worse when all his shallow friends came & made things worse for him, saying he sinned, he done something wrong..etc....

well.... the revelation of this sermon to me is.... as myself, all i need is to continue to trust Him, sometime in life there are alot of questions we can't answer, especially the trials in life which may not be due to our mistakes. Worse the trials come due to the mistakes of others.... but then at the end of the day just this verse concludes "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear Elohim, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For Elohim shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil."