Tested Unconsciously
We have many examples of men and women being tested unconsciously in the Scriptures, for the Holy Spirit rarely tells a person that he is about to be tested.
When you go to a doctor for an examination or take a scheduled examination in the classroom, the testing is conscious and purposeful. Consciously and knowingly you are taking a test to find out where you stand or whether you can fulfill the requirements.
But in the Scriptures the testing times were very rarely known to those being tested, and that is a sobering thought.
Abraham was being tested when he was asked to leave Ur of the Chaldees, but he did not know it. And when the Lord asked Abraham to take his only son up into the mountain, he thought he was being ordered. He did not know that he was being tested.
Peter was unconsciously tested. Paul was tested. There comes a time when we have heard enough truth and had sufficient opportunity and the Holy Spirit says, “Today this man is going to have his test!”
The people of Israel in their time of testing came to Kadesh-barnea and instead of crossing into the land, they said, “We will not go over.” They were unconscious of the testing, and they went back. They did not realize that they were sentencing themselves to forty years of aimless, useless wandering in the desert sands. The Lord had not said to them, “Now stand up, everyone. Breathe deeply! This is going to be a test!” He simply let them make their own test, and they flunked it.
It is a solemn and frightening thing in this world of sin and flesh and devils, to realize that about eighty or ninety percent of the people whom God is testing will flunk the test!
The Lord will do His own sorting out, and all of us should be aware that we are in a time when every day is a day of testing. Some come to their Kadesh-barnea and turn back. Some simply stand and look across the river. They are only curious.
Is there anyone for spiritual perfection—anyone with an honest desire to be Christlike—to be more like Jesus Christ every day?
We have many examples of men and women being tested unconsciously in the Scriptures, for the Holy Spirit rarely tells a person that he is about to be tested.
When you go to a doctor for an examination or take a scheduled examination in the classroom, the testing is conscious and purposeful. Consciously and knowingly you are taking a test to find out where you stand or whether you can fulfill the requirements.
But in the Scriptures the testing times were very rarely known to those being tested, and that is a sobering thought.
Abraham was being tested when he was asked to leave Ur of the Chaldees, but he did not know it. And when the Lord asked Abraham to take his only son up into the mountain, he thought he was being ordered. He did not know that he was being tested.
Peter was unconsciously tested. Paul was tested. There comes a time when we have heard enough truth and had sufficient opportunity and the Holy Spirit says, “Today this man is going to have his test!”
The people of Israel in their time of testing came to Kadesh-barnea and instead of crossing into the land, they said, “We will not go over.” They were unconscious of the testing, and they went back. They did not realize that they were sentencing themselves to forty years of aimless, useless wandering in the desert sands. The Lord had not said to them, “Now stand up, everyone. Breathe deeply! This is going to be a test!” He simply let them make their own test, and they flunked it.
It is a solemn and frightening thing in this world of sin and flesh and devils, to realize that about eighty or ninety percent of the people whom God is testing will flunk the test!
The Lord will do His own sorting out, and all of us should be aware that we are in a time when every day is a day of testing. Some come to their Kadesh-barnea and turn back. Some simply stand and look across the river. They are only curious.
Is there anyone for spiritual perfection—anyone with an honest desire to be Christlike—to be more like Jesus Christ every day?
Tested Unconsciously
We have many examples of men and women being tested unconsciously in the Scriptures, for the Holy Spirit rarely tells a person that he is about to be tested.
When you go to a doctor for an examination or take a scheduled examination in the classroom, the testing is conscious and purposeful. Consciously and knowingly you are taking a test to find out where you stand or whether you can fulfill the requirements.
But in the Scriptures the testing times were very rarely known to those being tested, and that is a sobering thought.
Abraham was being tested when he was asked to leave Ur of the Chaldees, but he did not know it. And when the Lord asked Abraham to take his only son up into the mountain, he thought he was being ordered. He did not know that he was being tested.
Peter was unconsciously tested. Paul was tested. There comes a time when we have heard enough truth and had sufficient opportunity and the Holy Spirit says, “Today this man is going to have his test!”
The people of Israel in their time of testing came to Kadesh-barnea and instead of crossing into the land, they said, “We will not go over.” They were unconscious of the testing, and they went back. They did not realize that they were sentencing themselves to forty years of aimless, useless wandering in the desert sands. The Lord had not said to them, “Now stand up, everyone. Breathe deeply! This is going to be a test!” He simply let them make their own test, and they flunked it.
It is a solemn and frightening thing in this world of sin and flesh and devils, to realize that about eighty or ninety percent of the people whom God is testing will flunk the test!
The Lord will do His own sorting out, and all of us should be aware that we are in a time when every day is a day of testing. Some come to their Kadesh-barnea and turn back. Some simply stand and look across the river. They are only curious.
Is there anyone for spiritual perfection—anyone with an honest desire to be Christlike—to be more like Jesus Christ every day?
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