As Christians, especially as Christians who claim to be born again in Christ, we are taught and we believe through our faith that, indeed there is a God, and that God who is our Father, is a God of love and compassion.
We accept and believe this with all of our heart and all of our being, otherwise we are not cannot be considered a Christian in the truest sense of the name.
This being true about ourselves and our God, meaning we truly believe it in our hearts, that God is a God of love, actually that God is love personified, how can we also say and believe that, God who loves us, would ever purposely place temptations or adversity in our lives in our paths to test or tempt our love, our faith, our loyalty to God, especially when we offer it of our own "Free Choice" yes we choose to offer these to God.
The word ( Adversity ) in my Webster’s Dictionary is derived from the word ( Adverse ) which is defined as: Turned opposite to, working in opposition to, or contrary to.
This definition then begs the questions:
If God Loves us unconditionally, if God is pure love, if God cannot and would not go against who He is and who he represents, then, why would God tempt us, test our love and loyalty, doubt our faith? Why would God go in contradiction to who and what God claims he is, love. We must also ask our selves another very important question of faith.
As Christians we claim that God’s Holy Word is recorded for man, thru God’s Holy Spirit, written by the hand of man in the Holy Bible, regardless of which version we happen to use.
Since God cannot lie we claim by faith that the words recorded in the Holy Bible are in fact inerrant truths from Holy God. In other words it is error free and does not contradict itself.
When Jesus was accused of being Be el ze bub, in other words the devil or satan, when he cast out a demon, Jesus answered the Pharisees "And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand? MATT:12:26;
Jesus also tells us: "I and the Father are one. If you have seen me, you have seen the Father." JOHN: 10: 30
And again Jesus tells us: "That the Father is in me, and I in him." JOHN:10:38; and goes on to tell us that anyone believing in Him, Jesus, is renewed and is in Jesus. In other words God Our Father when he looks at us, now sees us as justified, and if justified as His son or daughter, therefore joint heirs with Jesus sharing in the kingship of Christ.
In other words if we go back, if we believe that God is God, that God is Love, then how can we believe that God would test us by placing us in an adverse position to have to prove our love for Him.
How could we possibly believe that, if we are inflicted with some disease life threatening or not, or some disaster or hardship creeps into our lives, that God is testing us, testing our obedience, or our love, or our faith and loyalty? No No No! God could never and would never do these things.
But there is one, one very evil, maniacal, deceiving, liar, who will create such problems and disasters and diseases, placing them in our lives, then turn around and claim that it is God testing us, blaming God for our suffering. That one is the leader of the fallen angels of heaven originally known as Lucifer, more commonly known as Satan or the devil.
Satan seeks to try and destroy our faith in Our God. He hates that we would believe that Our God is all powerful and that God loves us. Satan will try in every possible way to deceive us into believing that it is God testing us hoping that we will fall flat on our faces and then turn to satan for help, help he is powerless to deliver. If we permit satan to accomplish this, then infact we are guilty of the one unpardonable sinful act that Jesus tells us can never be forgiven.
Satan got his beginning first by deceiving himself along with 1/3 of the angels of heaven that angels are equal to God. Satan then goes on to his first deceitful act to destroy man’s love and trust and faith with Adam. Adam failed.
We can see how satan works first hand as we read in Exodus how satan convinces Pharoah that satan’s powers through Pharoah was more powerful than God. Ten times Moses goes before Pharoah to demand the release of the Hebrew children of God and ten times Pharoah refuses so God sends down nine specific plagues against Egypt and its people.
The tenth plague, Pharoah himself declares, and God reverses it killing the first born of all Egypt rather than Pharoah’s decree of the first born of the Hebrews being killed. It is from this last plague that we begin the feast of "Passover" when the hand of death passed over the children of Israel and killed the first born of Egypt.
For as long as satan the prince of darkness is permitted to reign over earth and its inhabitants, satan is permitted to test and try to deceive us into changing our faith and our belief, trying to cause us as humans to follow him.
God even permits satan to test God himself.
Jesus after his baptism goes off into the wilderness led by the holy spirit and fasts for 40 days. During this time Our heavenly Father permits Jesus, the son of God, now but a mere human with human frailties to be tempted by satan. Satan Lost "Thou shalt not put to the test the Lord thy God." MATT:4:7;
Personally I choose to be like JOB, faithful no matter what satan tries, for I know already what my reward will be if I turn to satan, the Lake of Fire and eternal separation from God.
Satan was permitted by God to test the faith of Job. Job lost his family, his livestock, his wealth, he was plagued with illness, he even lost all of his friends who would stand around and ridicule him, yet Job remains faithful. Satan lost yet another battle, and he will lose the war to for God is God and God will triumph. Sin will never win over righteousness.
I don’t want this for myself or for anyone I can help to avoid it. I realize that as human, I can never be as perfect as God or as Jesus, but I must be the nearest, the best that I can be.
I will not know, while still alive on earth, the treasures stored up for me in heaven and furthermore I could care less. I just want to get back to heaven to be with My God, My Father, someone who truly loves me for who I am.
The road home is very narrow, and unfortunately filled with pitfalls, but My God, My Father, will and does help me daily to get by them, because He loves me and wants me home, as much as I long to be home, in Heaven.
In summation: God loves us unconditionally this is one of the lessons Jesus teaches us. Does God want us to love Him in return? Yes, but only if we choose to do so. After all what good father does not love their child and hope that their child loves them back, but, does God or would God test our love for him? No definitely not, not since Jesus began teaching us about God as Our Father, no longer as a God to be feared.
Woe unto those of us that call ourselves followers of Christ Jesus, call ourselves Christians (born again) regardless of which religious denomination we associate with, if anyone blames our Heavenly Beloved Father God, for any illness or hardship or disaster, claiming that God is testing us, testing our beliefs, our faith, for then we become as hypocritical as the Pharisees in Jesus time.
In conclusion: God, being our Father, God being a God of love, can never and will never test our love and our faith, but because of "Free Choice" he permits satan to try.
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