Job lost his family and his fortune in a single day. Yet, looking back he wrote, \u2018When He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.\u2019<\/i> It takes much more heat to produce gold than it does to produce tin. So which of the two do you want to be? To enjoy the blessing God has in mind for you, you\u2019ve got to pass life\u2019s tests. <\/p>\n
In the early days of television programming, schedules were routinely interrupted by a thirty-second test of \u2018The Emergency Broadcast System\u2019. And those tests are a lot like the ones that come into our lives\u2014 unscheduled\u2026 unwelcome\u2026 and they always seem to come at the worst possible time. But unlike television test patterns, life\u2019s tests don\u2019t last for thirty seconds then go away. No, they can last for weeks, years, and in some cases, for a lifetime. And the reason why may never be completely clear to you. <\/p>\n
However, there\u2019s an aspect of the test you can control\u2014how you respond to it. The truth is, tests are an invaluable, integral, and indispensable part of your spiritual growth. Without them you\u2019ll never grow and mature as much as you need to. And it\u2019s how you handle your \u2018tests\u2019 that decides your \u2018testimony\u2019. Paul writes about testing: \u2018All of this is for your benefit. And as God\u2019s grace reaches more and more people, there will be great thanksgiving, and God will receive more and more glory. That is why we never give up\u2026 our spirits are being renewed every day.\u2019<\/i> (2\u00a0Corinthians\u00a04:15\u201316\u00a0NLT<\/sup>)<\/p>\n Bottom line: you\u2019re \u2018graced\u2019 for this test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Job lost his family and his fortune in a single day. Yet, looking back he wrote, \u2018When He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.\u2019 It takes much more heat to produce gold than it does to produce tin. So which of the two do you want to be? To enjoy the blessing […]<\/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\/1571"}],"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=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}