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A Faith that can’t be tested can’t be trusted.
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God uses and allows trials not only to verify our faith but also to purify it and remove the unwanted material.
Like the stuff that’s called dross, the scum or unwanted material that forms on the surface of molten metal, the impurities.
Peter compared our Christian trials to the testing of gold in the furnace.
And Job used the same thing :
The point is that God knows what kind of Faith we have, but we don’t know, and the only way to advance in the “school of faith” is to take the tests.
Like Abraham, as we grow and move in our faith or “school of faith”, we will face three tests:
Circumstance,
People,
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Circumstances
This is when Abraham and Sarah have left their families and traveled to an unknown land, this was a giant leap of faith.
They arrived and God spoke His word of promise to Abraham for the second time.
Abraham was expecting to settle down and enjoy their new home and life.
But God had other plans.
Instead, God permitted a famine to come to the land.
Why did God allow the famine?
To Teach them a basic lesson in their faith, a lesson we must also learn:
Tests often follow triumphs.
We can see this principle illustrated in the history of Isreal.
No sooner had the nation been delivered from Eygpt than the Egyptian army chased them and cornered them at the Red Sea ().
Triumph was followed by testing.
God brought them through, but then they faced another test: no water ().
After that came hunger () and an attack from the Amalekites ().
Tests follow triumphs.
One of the enemies of the life of faith is pride.
When we win a victory, we might feel overconfident and start telling ourselves that we can defeat any enemy at any time.
We start depending on our past experience and our growing knowledge of the Word, instead of depending wholly on the Lord.
God did not want Abraham to become proud and self-confident, so He put him and his faith into the furnace for testing.
After we have won a great victory of faith, expect the enemy to attack us, or the Lord t test us, or both.
This is the only way we can grow in our faith.
God will use the tough circumstances of life to build the muscles of our faith and keep us from trusting something other than His Word.
Don’t try to run away from the problem.
It won’t work.
Instead of remaining in the land and trusting the Lord to help him, Abraham went “down into Egypt”
In the Bible, Egypt is a symbol of the world system and its bondage, while the land of Israel is a picture of inheritance of blessing God has for us ().
When people went to Jerusalem, they went up, but when they went to Egypt, they went down.
Spiritually speaking, “going down to Egypt” means doubting God’s promises and running to the world for help (; ; ; ; )
When circumstances become difficult and we are in the furnace of testing, remain where God has put you until He tells you to move.
Faith moves in the direction of peace and hope, but unbelief moves in the direction of restlessness and fear.
In times of testing, the important question is not
“How can I get out of this?”
but
“What can I get out of this?”
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Always remember:
God alone is in control of circumstances.
We are safer in a famine in His will than in a palace out of His will.
It has been said,
“The will of God will never lead you where the grace of God cannot keep you.”
Abraham failed the test of circumstances and turned from the will of God.
Next week we will look at the next test Abraham failed at People.
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