DO NOT TEST GOD!

” You must not test the Lord your God.” Matthew 4:7

” For the scriptures say, ‘ It is through faith that a righteous person has life.’ ” Galatians 3:11

Have you ever tested God? Just what is it to test our God in heaven? Testing God is much more than trying to get him to do a miracle. When we are testing Him, we are insisting that He prove that He is trustworthy. To test Him is to walk through our problems with the attitude that ‘ God would never let me go through such difficulties.’ ‘ He would never let me suffer through such terrible things. ‘ Our God in heaven has nothing to prove to us. When he provided Jesus to walk this earth to be persecuted, beaten, tortured and then die on the cross for you and me, he did nothing less than prove that he loves us and will not be sold short of protecting us and helping us through anything and everything we go through. God tells us in James 1:13, that he will never tempt us to sin. The trials we face are not designed to lead us to sin. They instead, reveal that sin already exists in our lives. By taking our lives by the horns and living by our own standards leaves the door open for sin to display itself. We are not the Lord God. We are a servant of our Lord, and we are to have faith that allows us to depend upon Him to get us through. It is not wrong to go to Him in prayer and humbly ask for wisdom or confirmation, but we must be very careful as to how we ask Him to provided signs and wonders to prove Himself. Yes, God does allow us to go struggles in this life and He does work through those struggles to make us stronger and to provide salvation for others. However, it is how we conduct ourselves in these struggles that count. We are to display our faith in Jesus and not grumble and ask God WHY we are going through such things. Remember, “it is by faith that a righteous person has life.” Galatians 3:11 PRAISE THE LORD IN ALL THINGS!