TESTING TIME

Testing Time

Unless a clay pot goes through the fiery furnace, it will not be fit for use. It will remain soft and fallible and crushed down at the first use. So it is with the trials and testing times that are of me. It is through pressure and uncomfortable circumstances that your convictions are tried. And only after being tried in fired, can it be solidified.

So too are the tests that I give to come and try you. And not to destroy or condemn you, for that is the work of the enemy. But I have come so that you may have life. My tests come so that you may try and see what is already inside of you, and that I may solidify my work. I already know what is inside of you, but unless you are tested, how will you know what you are made of?

So then my child, in whatever situation that you face, that which is uncomfortable, know that I want you to pass through it. Take the heat and stand in your convictions. It may not be easy, but after you have been tried, it will remain forever. The winds and storms may come, but your convictions will remain and you will not be easily shaken, because you have been hardened in the furnace. You would have been tested and have passed.

So do not waver, but stand firm in what you know I have done in you. Stand on it, even if it is the hardest thing to do, or goes against the grain. When you have stood and come out of the fire, it will be well worth it. It will be like a pearl of great price that you can hang on to forever, says the Lord. Amen.