Testing God

     Luke 4:9-12; The devil led him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. "If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw yourself down from here. 10 For it is written:

"He will command his angels concerning you

to guard you carefully;

11 they will lift you up in their hands,

so that you will not strike your foot against a stone."

   12 Jesus answered, "It is said: "Do not put the Lord your God to the test." 
     When I was younger, my friends and I would try to move mountains by talking to them and attempt to walk on water. We thought that is we had the faith of a mustard seed, those things would work, but they did not. We concluded that we had even smaller faith. I now think that those things did not work because we were testing God. We wanted to see if it would happen or not. We had no real reason for it to be done other than to be cool and impress others. Our motives were wrong.
     I hope that you are smarter than me and do not try to test God by jumping off a roof to see if he will make you fly or any of those crazy things. Do not test the Lord your God. Just trust that in his perfect timing, everything will work out right.

~Daughter of the Light