Stand Firm in Your Faith When No One Would Know
- meetgodattheedgeof
- Feb 13
- 2 min read
1 Corinthians 16:13–14
“Be on guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong. And do everything with love.”
Stand firm.
Our belief and trust in God come with guidance and tools to work through every situation. That’s why reading His Word and continually seeking to understand His character is not optional — it’s necessary. Without it, we don’t have the right understanding to measure the situations that pop up in everyday life.
We’ve all been there — a moment where you have the opportunity to “benefit” from being dishonest. A simple example is understating the purchase price of a car on registration paperwork. “They won’t question me if I say this $20,000 vehicle was purchased for $500.”
It drops the taxes owed considerably.
I used to do that. Everyone I knew did it. It was accepted as normal.
But what do we absolutely know about that? It’s dishonest. It’s illegal. It’s wrong.
As my dad once told me, “If it does not bring glory to God, it’s a sin.”
Every day we are presented with opportunities to either stand firm in our faith or justify compromise. The industry I work in is plagued with dishonest mechanics. It’s frustrating for the few who try to put honesty above profit. What really catches me off guard is when someone I know chooses dishonesty and tries to justify it.
Sometimes a customer is certain they need a particular repair and says, “Just fix it.” But we always push for diagnosis first. At the very least, we move forward confident it will actually solve the problem. At best, we find it’s a minor issue and save them a significant amount of money.
Occasionally someone will say, “Well, the customer wants to pay for these repairs. We should let him.”
My response is always the same: “No. The customer wants their car repaired. This is the right thing to do.”
Thankfully, that usually snaps them back to center, and we end up making someone very happy.
Here’s the truth: when no one would know, when it would be easy, when it seems small — that’s when we must stand firm in our faith the most. If our understanding of God’s character is weak or misaligned, we can justify decisions that are shockingly wrong.
Seek the Lord with all your heart. Understand His character by reading His Word. Let your foundation be built on truth so that when temptation whispers, compromise doesn’t win.
Stand firm in your faith.
Be courageous.
Be strong.
And let the love the Lord shows you flow into every decision you make.
Ask yourself:
Does it glorify God?
Thank you, Father, for one more day. Amen.
Colossians 3:9–11
“Don’t lie to each other, for you have stripped off your old sinful nature and all its wicked deeds. Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him… Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us.”
