Increasing Your Containers

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge…. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. –2 Peter 1:5,8 NIV

When facing trials, we’re presented with great opportunities to grow our faith, filling many containers with God’s fruit. Each trial doesn’t supply the container or the fruit, only the opportunity. As our faith grows, so will the containers that are needed for God to fill with the fruit He produces in us.Wouldn’t it be nice if our faith could grow without trials? Maybe God could make us stronger Christians by giving us a lot of money, perfect health, or ideal spouses, but nothing in life is perfect. Everybody grows through a process of pruning. As something new grows, something else is cut off. Death is replaced with life.It’s hard to welcome trials and to be joyful in them, but there is comfort in knowing that we’re growing in faith and bearing fruit. When we reach the end, there will be victory, and God will open new doors.