Faith that’s never been tested is just a theory you haven’t run in real life.

Anything untested is still a theory, whatever you believe about it. Convictions are easy to hold while nothing is asking anything of them, and the first hard thing reveals what you carried rather than what you recited. It is how anything becomes real, and the test is not a punishment for believing wrongly.

If something in your life is currently pressing on what you believe, treat it as the place where belief becomes yours rather than proof it was never true. Say the honest version to someone further along. Keep the small practices running while it is hard, since that is the stretch where they do the most work.