Acts 16:11-15 / John 15:26 - 16:4
To have faith is to believe in God who loves us.
And because God loves us, He will take care of us and provide for us.
And we pray because we know that God will listen to our prayers and He will answer our prayers.
But to have faith would also mean that our faith would be tested.
In the early Church, the persecution came from non-believers and anti-Christians.
But it also cannot be denied that there were some Christians who became betrayers and traitors.
After all, one of the apostles of Jesus betrayed Him and another denied Him, and the rest also deserted Him in the hour of trial.
In the gospel, Jesus warned that the hour is coming when anyone who kills a believer will think he is doing a holy duty for God.
In our time, we may have come across a fellow believer doing un-Christian things to us, and we are scandalized by that.
But let us hold on to our faith and keep believing that God knows all things and He also knows the intentions of each person’s heart.
Let us keep praying that we don’t lose faith, nor resort to the retaliation of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
If we truly believe in God who is love, then let us keep praying and keep loving.