Testing Faith

Sunday's are the best days. I actually watched the super bowl yesterday!! I have to admit here that I read books at all my brother's football games as a kid. It wasn't until I played powder puff my senior year of high school that I actually kind of understood the game. So at least I know what is going on sometimes when I watch now, It makes it more interesting. At half time I went over to College church (I was on the NNU campus) and watched their half time show. It was a guy with horns all over his body and he played songs. He was pretty much the most amazing thing I've seen in awhile. Davethehornguy.com check it out!!!

Ok well you are probably wondering what all that had to do with the title of the blog... Absolutely nothing!! :) Here is the real point.
Pastor Cliff was talking yesterday about how God builds our faith through testing in 4 major ways. 1. God tests us through difficulties and we are supposed to respond with Joy. (James 1:1-2) (1 Peter 1:6-7)
2. God tests us through demands and we are supposed to respond with immediate obedience
(Ex. 16:3) (Heb 11: 7 and 8)
3. God tests us through delays and we are supposed to respond by waiting patiently. (Isa. 64:4)
SIDE NOTE: I thought that not only should we wait patiently for tomorrow but we should have Joy for today as well. We shouldn't be so focused on what the future could hold that we don't see how God is working now.
4. God tests us through dollars and we are supposed to respond by giving generously. (Lk. 16:11) (2 Cor. 8:7-8)
SIDE NOTE: Two things here. Being wasteful with money shows a lack of discipline. I also thought this was good. "Money is a mirror reflecting who you are inside."


Well I just thought that this was really good and I wanted to share it.