The Trial of Our Faith

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 honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. I Peter 1:7 The churches to which Peter was writing were in heaviness through manifold temptations. We learn later in this letter that this heaviness or grief refers to the severe persecutions the saints experienced at the hand of the world. We also find ourselves frequently in heaviness through...