Christ's Mission Is Our Mission

God doesn’t test us to be mean. He tests us to see if we are ready for what He has next. Once the Lord has given us great faith, He has been known to test us with long delays.

Christ's mission is our mission. God never sends you where He's never been.

But God will not accommodate our doubt by bending His promises. Our disbelief doesn't affect Him, it affects us. The promises are already ours, we just have to claim them.

We are the ones who make life so complicated. God (the teacher) tests us after He has given us all the answers to every question in life through the Bible, but we (the students) don't take the time to study and believe what the Bible says. The Bible is our Study Guide, we just have to utilize it in order for us to benefit on God's tests.

The Israelites failed their test. They murmured and complained and ended up turning an 11 day journey into a 40 year journey. Abram was tested. God asked him to give up the thing, the person, that meant the most to him in the whole world. Abram passed the test. Even Jesus was tested, 3 times by Satan in the desert before the start of his public ministry (He passed too).

Even if we fail a test, God gives us the opportunity to pass another. If you feel God is testing you, it is not a sign that you have done something bad or that you are being punished. It is an opportunity for you to prove what you are made of. God's tests: Strange and difficult indeed we may find them, But the blessing that we need is behind them.

The center of trouble is the place where He preserves us, not the place where He fails us.

Blessings,
Dalinda

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