In heaviness through manifold temptations

1Pe 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
1Pe 1:6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations

We are KEPT by the power of God.
We are kept by the power of God though FAITH.
That faith will be unto our SALVATION.
Salvation that will be revealed in the LAST TIME.
Wherein in we greatly REJOICE.
Though we rejoice in this miracle promised to us we also for a SEASON, if NEEDED, we are in HEAVINESS.
The heaviness is caused by MANIFOLD TEMPTATIONS.

This heaviness is awful. Have you experienced? Do you know what is being talked about here? Our lives on earth will be filled with temptations. Temptations must be faced and fought.

Heb 12:4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

STRIVING against sin.
RESISTED unto blood.

We cannot escape the horrors of this world we live in. We cannot escape the flesh desires that exist in us. We cannot escape Satan's attacks. There is NO insulated bubble we can enter and live in that will keep us from the life of heaviness we are called to live.

1Pe 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ

The TRIAL of our faith!
It is a trial because holding fast to our faith unto salvation is necessary. Satan will strive to rip our faith from us, he will stop at NOTHING to take any and all faith we possess away from any who dare to have it.

This trial that we endure, this life of one trial after another is MORE precious than gold.
We are only ever found to praise and honor and glory when our trial is over and our Savior appears to call us to be with Him. This is a trial that is ongoing until either we die or Jesus returns. There are NO time outs, there are NO exceptions, we live in faith and if we live in faith we live in the heaviness of trials- trying of our faith.

Our Savior will return and our faith will be rewarded.

1Pe 1:8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
1Pe 1:9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

Praise GOD!

In our FAITH we rejoice with JOY unspeakable knowing that our belief in a Savior we've never seen will be realized! Our Savior full of glory! The SALVATION of our souls!

PRAISE GOD! GLORY BE TO OUR HEAVENLY FATHER!

May we hold fast through all the horrors of heaviness as Satan works endlessly attempting to rip our faith away from us. Through the power of God we are KEPT through faith! All in Him, all through HIM.

Amen.