One of the Hebrew words for test is \u2018bachan\u2019 and it is related to the word for watchtower. It is about keenly looking and scrutinising. Dismiss the notion that God does not see your struggle. On the contrary, He is fully engaged. He sees the needs of tomorrow and, accordingly, uses your circumstances to create the test of today. Does He not have the authority to do so? <\/p>\n
He is the Potter; we are the clay. He is the Shepherd; we are the sheep. He is the Gardener; we are the branches. He is the Teacher; we are the students. Trust His training. You\u2019ll get through this. And remember, all tests are temporary. They are limited in duration. <\/p>\n
The Bible says, \u2018In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials.\u2019<\/i> (1 Peter 1:6 NIV) And here\u2019s something else to keep in mind: you can\u2019t shorten your testing period, but you can definitely lengthen it by being proud and stubborn, resisting what God wants to teach you. God won\u2019t deny you that choice, but neither will He protect you from the consequences of that choice. You wouldn\u2019t be the first student who had to repeat a year in school, and you won\u2019t be the last. You can go to church on Sunday and pay lip service to God\u2019s Word; you can reject the principles of truth and seek the easy way out. But it doesn\u2019t work. <\/p>\n
\u2018Good understanding gains favour, but the way of the unfaithful is hard.\u2019<\/i> (Proverbs 13:15 NKJV) Do it God\u2019s way, for that\u2019s the best way. Always!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of the Hebrew words for test is \u2018bachan\u2019 and it is related to the word for watchtower. It is about keenly looking and scrutinising. Dismiss the notion that God does not see your struggle. On the contrary, He is fully engaged. He sees the needs of tomorrow and, accordingly, uses your circumstances to create […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}