FAITH UNDER PRESSURE

Written by Pastor Austen C. Ukachi

EXHORTATION

"Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colours. So don't try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way" (James 1:2-4 MSG).

Without any shadow of doubt, these are days of intense pressure. Both at the national and personal levels, we are all under one form of pressure or the other. In the words of Paul, we are hard pressed on all sides. As a nation, we are presently under economic, social, religious and political pressures. Business men and women are under economic pressure. So also are the students, market women, workers, etc. Pressure leads our youth into all kinds of vices. Some convent with the devil to acquire evil powers. Pressure leads our youth to seek to migrate to Europe by all means.some go through the desert, others cross the Mediterranean seas. Pressure lead some men to armed robbery etc.