TESTING, TESTING, TESTING

TESTING, TESTING, TESTING

Thursday, May 02, 2019

1Corinthians [ESV] 13:11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

  What I’ve been Biblically pondering lately is contrary to the popular pleasant wearing of “GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU”, the claim being an undeniable truth . . . but lacking in full comprehension and/or acceptance by many of the fact being that God does so but as it serves His plan and pleases Him. We intone “Thy will be done.” but often contradict in our thoughts and deeds. Beginning with Adam and Eve until the last word of Scripture it is obvious that God tests us on our submissive faithfulness; this lively activity being in various times and ways nonetheless inescapable.

  God tests people by design (Ex.16:4; 20:20; 2Cor.12:7-11) or allowance (Job).

  God’s testing always involves whether we trust Him or not. Adam did not. Job did. The apostle Paul was confronted with this issue with his motive being to better serve his Lord. In response God posed the question to Paul and for all of us: Is His grace sufficient?

  Watch for it, this day will be no different.

EBB4

PS. Note Ex.14. God gave specific orders directing 600,000 men plus women, children, flocks and possessions into a physically untenable place. Quite the test, wasn’t it? Should we expect to always be treated differently?