What is one thing that this pandemic has shown us? When we think about the past few months and look at our lives, we realize where our true spiritual state is.

Please, allow me to explain this further. These are uncertain times, days of challenges and majority of the times, days filled with hardships and difficulties. When a Christian goes through hard moments, it is then that they see the true state of their faith – whether their faith is like gold that is refined and shines brighter after going through the fire, or whether it is like paper that burns to ash by a single flame.

“The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the hearts.” 

(Proverbs 17:3)

What makes some Christians have faith to remain in God’s presence, while others backslide in their faith? The secret, my dear friend, is none other than the Holy Spirit. He is the One that keeps God’s children persevering in their faith. Without Him, Christians backslide in their faith for any little thing. 

What type of faith do you have? Has this pandemic brought you closer to God, or has it drawn you further and further away from Him to the point where you don’t have strength even to pray anymore?

There is a solution for those who sincerely recognise that they have backslid. The solution is to return to God. Perhaps the troubles of life have caused you to forget God and place Him at the end of your list. Well, now is your chance to return to Him and place Him in the first place of your life!

“I will bring the one-third through the fire, will refine them as silver is refined, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘This is My people’; and each one will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”

(Zechariah 13:9)

Be a part of this one third, return to God while there is still time.

May the God of the Bible bless you

Bishop Joshua Fonseca