Hosea 11:12
”Ephraim has encircled me with lies,and the house of Judah with deceit but Judah still walks with the Lord, even with the holy one who is faithful.”

It is amazing the level of deception, profanity and evil that pervades our societies today, especially on social media. I find it sad, the vulnerability among the masses who consume such information. We live in trying times.

Indeed the Bible is true when it says that in the last days, the love of many will grow cold. The believer today, may be likened to righteous Lot,“who living among them was tormented in his soul by what he saw and heard”. (2 Peter 2:7) Let’s be encouraged to know that some men walked with God even in trying times.

1. Job’s wife questioned his faith in God. She asked: “Do you still hold on to your integrity? Curse God and die.” Nonetheless Job held on to the Lord, saying: ”though he slay me, yet will I trust him.” (Job 14:14)

2. Abraham believed God against all odds. He did not consider the deadness of his body as well as the deadness of Sarah’s womb. Rather, he hoped against hope.(Rom 4 :18).

3. Hannah kept going to Shiloh to worship year by year, even though she did not have a child.

Dear friend, the question is: Are you still walking with the Lord in the face of very trying times?

Remember God is faithful even when we are faithless. For God Himself has said,“I will never leave you or forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5b).

Be encouraged today. Keep trusting, keep believing, keep walking by faith.

He will come through for you!

Further Reading : Gen 5:22-24