Did you know that some trials are really tests from God? We tell God that we are ready. We are ready to go to the next level with Him and we believe with our whole hearts that we are ready, we are willing, and we are able but are we ready, willing, and able to endure the tests that come along with going to that next level?
We have to understand what a test is. A test can be looked at as an experiment. An experiment that will establish the quality, performance, and reliability of something. The quality of something is the degree of excellence of it. It is the degree to which something or someone meets and exceeds expectations. When we are being tested by God, it’s not because God is looking to see what we will will do because He already knows what we will do. Our tests in essence are revealing to our own selves how reliable we really are and how we perform under the pressures that come with life.
Every now and then we have to self-check our hearts. What is coming up out of us. How we do in the midst of trials and tests, reveals to us what is in us. Our test can show us if we are walking in love or if we are allowing frustration and aggravation to consume us? When you are frustrated you are distressed and annoyed and it inhibits your ability to do what you are called to do. It causes roadblocks to come up in your life that will block God’s anointing from flowing freely through your life. When you are annoyed, you are irritated, vexed, and in some cases a little angry. Those are not God traits that we need to be harboring in our hearts.
What we have to start doing is recognizing the test. We have to understand that everything will not always go the way we want or even expect them to go. We have to be ready, willing, and able to do things God’s way. We have to live a life of self-sacrifice, where we are constantly sacrificing our wants and our desires for what God wants and desires to do through our lives JUST AS JESUS DID WHEN HE SACRIFICED HIS LIFE ON THE CROSS FOR US.
Most tests are about sacrifice. They are about dying to self so that you can live for God!
SCRIPTURE MEDITATION
Romans 12:1-2
King James Version
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
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