can you think of a past experience where you can now see that God was testing you.?

Answer 1

Many, too many too list them all. The hardest test was probably the fact that I wanted children so badly. I had 4 miscarriages and 1 stillbirth and had given up on life and children. I only wanted to cease to be, I was so angry at God. I was mad, not doubting His existence. It was then when I thought all was lost and worthless that I really got to know my husband. I was married before him but not a real marriage I was 17 and my "husband" was 34 when we married. It never was a valid one though. I now have a wonderful husband and two sweet sons I never would have had. If I had had children with that other man who lived I would have stayed with him for their sake and life would not have been good or kind nor would I have the family I have today. Things do work out for the best. I have 2 sons and 6 babies praying for me in Heaven.
Peace Be With You,
Debra

Answer 2

Yes.

I failed the test...but maybe the test was more about realizing who I really am and how great God is. I have a much closer relationship with God.

I now realize that if things are good, it is because God is allowing them to be good. I now realize that if God lets me go on my own way, I can/do/could wander very, very, far from Him. I have learned that following God's ways are filled with blessings. He isn't a harsh God that demands me to be perfect..and that is is how I viewed Him. Harsh and unloving...full of anger towards me because I couldn't do the things I know I should.

I no longer look around me to other Christians and judge their walk with the Lord. I just stay focused on my walk. I just stay focused on reading the Bible and staying close to the the Lord. I now know that it isn't by my power that I stay in His hand, but it is by His power....what a relief!

Answer 3

Oh yes, it wasn't god that was doing the testing though.....
All that has happened in my life that could have made me weak, was because of others about me.
It was god that kept me strong during those times but as I woke up and found my own strength everything become apparent how all was meant to happen for me to find my strength, but it also become apparent how god was always there in my life-not to do the testing but to do the guiding

Answer 4

Maybe not testing, but showing me something that I needed to know.

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 5

Yes, but the times that I failed the test stick out more than the times I came out victorious. Good thing is is a forgiving God.

Answer 6

Yes, when I was a banker far back 1993 then lost my job in 1995.
After series of struggling for five years with my family, God opens another avenue for me. If I was not patienced, I could have gotten myself into all soughts of atrocities.

Answer 7

I think God has a great sense of humour - there were times I thought I wouldn't make it for another day and He kept me going for weeks after - providing answers and enless possibilities just when I needed it most!

Answer 8

I can think of a number of times when I tested God. He failed every time. I began to suspect that no such being exists about then.

Answer 9

No. I am unable to feel the presence of a higher being, and no god has reached out to me, the opposite of what every holy book has clearly promised.

Answer 10

Patience is a big one :) With my dating life specifically, God really tested me with patience before He brought the one He wanted me to be with.