What has been your most significant test? What has been your most difficult test? Have you been through times when it feels as though your testing is overwhelming? How have you handling being tested? Have you gutted it out? Have you crumbled? Have you gotten help?
Being tested can be extremely difficult. Depending on what we are experiencing, we may feel like giving up. We may feel as though there is nowhere we can turn for help. But there is someone we can turn to, if only we will decide to do so.
God is always with us and waiting for us to surrender to him. If he is testing us, we are promised that he has provided a way out. He is using the test to strengthen us. His desired result from the test is that our faith is made stronger, that we learn to trust him more.
But we must remember that God is not the only one who may test us. Satan is behind many tests. His goal is much different than God’s. Satan wants us to give up. He wants us to deny God, but holding on to God is and putting our faith in him is the only way to overcome Satan’s tests.
Notice also the Apostle Paul states that the testing we face is common. Though we may think our testing is unique, something no one else has faced before, we are mistaken. That means there is help for us. To find that help, we need to look for it. We need to ask God to guide us to the help we need. Through all our testing, to endure it, we need to hold on to our faith.
I pray we all know the tests we face are common. I pray we know God will provide a way to endure it. I pray each one of us see testing as a way to strengthen us and increase our faith. Testing is common. God will provide a way. God tests us to strengthen us. Hold on to your faith.
1 Corinthians 10:13 No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it.
Marty Pressey 