Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Putting God to the Test

Do you ever feel like everything is testing your patience?  Perhaps you also have had those days when everything seemed to be wrong.  Everyone is in a bad mood.  You just feel like maybe God is testing our patience.  Maybe he is!  The Bible tells us that these trials are meant to build our character.

But what about when we test God?  Jesus tells us that God is not to be tested, but don't we do it all the time?  We beg for things that God isn't willing to give to us, we rationalize our actions, and we ask God to constantly give more to us than we give to him.   Luke 20 shows the teachers of the law testing Jesus.  They were trying to get him to mess up enough for them to arrest him.  It seems like they simply were trying to gain power over Jesus.  If Jesus would just go away, they would be in control again.

In Exodus, the Israelites constantly test God.  They just don't have the faith needed to carry them through forty years of trials in the desert.  God shows them compassion over and over again, but he doesn't give them an easy road to follow.

Our lives are much the same. It isn't an easy road, but God provides all we need to get through.  There is a song out right now called, Blessings by Laura Story.  The lyrics are as follows:

'Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You're near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know that pain reminds this heart
That this is not, this is not our home
Its not our home
Through the most difficult moments in our day, we must realize that this is not our home.  There will come a day when we have no trials.

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