Highlight on 1 Cor 1:9 - faith in fire

2 Cor 1:9

In fact, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. This was so that we would trust, not in ourselves, but in the God who raises up the dead

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    While not in this specific application, I relate to this. How in my most hopeless moments, like a purifying fire, all that was left was faith; and a faith made stronger. Faith, hope, and love.

     Those things are what make brave, wise, capable, or strong.

      While we do not want to oversimplify everything in life in a way that stops of from being thoughtful; thinking, feeling, reflecting, listening deeply.

       But I'm those trials by fire, still these remain, and our option to choose them stands so clear.