One never knows when or where the test of your Faith will take place! It is most embarrassing and condemning when you fail a test right after hearing the answers!This is what happened to me just this morning, and I am ashamed of my actions.
Let’s start at the beginning.
I left home early this morning to take an extra long walk before work. A car passed by blaring Christian Rock music. I thought to myself, “There is another Believer!” At which time, I was reminded that I should put my headphones on and listen to the morning Christian Sermon I like to tune in on my iPhone radio.
The message today, was about obeying God and being ready to obey him when He speaks. The sermon made us ask of ourselves if we are ready to obey no matter the circumstances, and despite what the world may think. I continued listening to this podcast sermon while walking around by the lake on my way to work. Having stopped under a shady tree and rested on a bench, I finished listening to the podcast and looking out over the water. When it was over, I placed my iPhone and headset back into my backpack.
Almost immediately, a young couple who looked like they had just spent the night on the beach, came walking by me. The male of the couple looked at me and simply asked, “Do you have a cell phone?” In my mind raced thoughts of him taking it and running away with it. Instead of answering honestly and finding out more, I simply nodded by head “No”. I knew that he knew I was lying. They both walked on and disappeared while I sat there feeling guilty about lying and not helping in some way.
Over and over in my mind, the sermon that I had just heard played back to me. The guilt and condemnation rose in my heart about how awful I could be right after hearing the Truth! I had been tested and failed! Yet again, I got tested and failed and I knew it!
I blame my stone cold heart for failing the test. Why do I have such a heart? Because I spend all my time indulging in my own fantasies, my own priorities, and living like a loner. When I return to the world where others are around, I am not prepared to share myself or deal with the situations in the outside world. My heart is also stony cold because I don’t spend as much time with the Lord as I should be!
Angels are all around us and will test us as we walk through our lives. Be prepared to be tested and to honour the Lord by living true to His Word!
Being Prepared
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“Then the kingdom of heaven will be comparable to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. “Five of them were foolish, and five were prudent. “For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, read more.
“Take heed, keep on the alert; for you do not know when the appointed time will come. “It is like a man away on a journey, who upon leaving his house and putting his slaves in charge, assigning to each one his task, also commanded the doorkeeper to stay on the alert. “Therefore, be on the alert–for you do not know when the master of the house is coming, whether in the evening, at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning– read more.
“Be dressed in readiness, and keep your lamps lit. “Be like men who are waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding feast, so that they may immediately open the door to him when he comes and knocks. “Blessed are those slaves whom the master will find on the alert when he comes; truly I say to you, that he will gird himself to serve, and have them recline at the table, and will come up and wait on them. read more.
“But keep on the alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are about to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we believed.
Remind them to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed,
The end of all things is near; therefore, be of sound judgment and sober spirit for the purpose of prayer.
Be of sober spirit, be on the alert Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
‘So remember what you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent Therefore if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.
‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.
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