Testing versus Tempting

I got a great reminder this past week.

Tempting and testing are not the same thing. The Bible tells us that God never tempts anyone, but He does test His children. Test means to prove. A test puts us through the Refiner’s fire and burns away those traits that aren’t good for us.

Testing is done by God tostrengthenus and tobuild us upand tohelp us succeed.

Tempting is done by Satan toweakenus and totear us downand tomake us fail.

Great reminders, yes, especially in seasons of testing.

~robin