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Faith Under Pressure
2Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. 3You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. 4So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.

Really? That’s a gift? It scares me those times when the true colors are going to be shone. I want to be mature, and well-developed, I just usually want the easy way out. Lord, let me be real in the tough times and the easy times, let those true colors be honoring and glorifying to you.