The apostle Peter says in 1PE 1:7, "That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ."

It was by faith that Jesus Christ obeyed and stepped into the wrath of God to be tried by the fire of God's wrath. Christ stepped into death as an act of obedience, to try His faith, and to become the author and finisher of our faith.

As we become more like Christ, the trial of our faith will also be a trial of obedience.

The identifying mark of salvation is that we hear and do the Word of God. If we come to circumstances that are a trial of the flesh, we have to give over the flesh and the things that please the flesh in order to obey the Word of God.

We have to be willing to give up our honour and to suffer shame and the loss of all things. Why? The Lord will try our faith to see if we obey.

LUK 14:26-27 says, "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple."

The Lord will bring us to where our will is dissolved in His will to make that sacrifice like the one Abraham made. The trial of our faith will be whether we will obey the Word of God.