WHEN  YOU 
ARE BEING 
TESTED BY  GOD

July 30, 2022

Have you ever noticed that God will often test us in the areas we’re strongest?

“Satan tempts us in our weakest points to bring out the worst in us, but God tests us in our strongest points to bring out the best in us.”

Why Does God Test Us?

God tests us because he loves us dearly and wants us to grow in grace and in the knowledge of him. This is why the Bible tells us we can rejoice when being tested.

Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. [2] Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you. ”

Genesis 22:1-2 NIV

God will test us just as he tested Abraham. This is a clear and simple truth. I don’t personally like it and can make a case that it isn’t fair, but none of this will change the fact that God tests us. You might not like it and might be able to make a different case for the unjust nature of his testing, but again, this will not change the fact that God tests us.

God knows that after we’ve been through tests, we’ll learn to rely on Him and to more promptly go to His throne of grace where “we will find grace to help us when we need it most” (Hebrews 4:16 NLT).

In time of trials, times when I don’t understand what is going on with me, I tell God “Lord I do not understand this season and what you are doing with me but I leave everything in your hands”. because If I rely on my strengths within myself, I’ll fail every time, but if I rely on His strength (which is strengthening my strengths), I’ll be able to withstand the test and bring Him glory.

Romans 5:2-5 (ESV) says
“Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”

James 1:2-4 (ESV) says.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”

Abraham’s strongest point was his faith, and that is exactly where the Lord tested him. If Abraham, Moses, and Peter (just to name a few) had to learn to rely on God’s grace instead of their own strength, then we definitely do too.