Genuineness of faith

that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honour, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, - 1 Peter 1v7

How do you find out if something is genuine? A key way is to put it through a test to make sure that it is real.

One way to test gold is to heat it to the melting point. When that happens all of the impurities rise to the top and are scrapped off. What is left after it is done is pure gold.

Genuine faith is rare. Where there is genuine faith there is praise, honour, and glory to God. Genuine faith is real and it always survives every test that it is put through, and yet, we don’t like faith tests any more than we like pop quizzes in school.

If it were not for tests though how would we know if our faith was genuine or something we picked up along the way? Faith tests are nothing to be feared. Even when the tests seem to hot to handle may we embrace then so that the genuineness of our faith will allow us to live lives that are to the praise, honour, and glory of our Saviour.