Faith must be tested for you to know how real it is. It is easy to say you have faith but living it out is something different.

Faith is measured by walk, not by talk; faith is measured by life, not by lip service. (1 Pet. 1: 3-9)

God desires to know the experience of your love for Him which is revealed through your faith in His word in all circumstances and situations.

Although God knows everything, that was, is and that will be. God knows everything actual; He knows everything potential and He knows everything factual.

God does not know everything experientially until He experiences it! 

That’s why God leads you into trials and tribulations, humbling you and testing you to prove your character, allowing you to discover whether or not you would obey his commands in all circumstances and situations. (Deut. 8: 1-5,)

Sometimes God will put you in a contradictory situation by doing what you are told to do by God.

During some trials God will tell you to sacrifice something you love. God puts you between a rock and a hard place, a unique kind of trial.

God is getting ready to do something special in your life!

An example is God telling Abraham to sacrifice the promise He made to him. If he kills the promise, there is no promise. (contradiction of word: kill the promise; Child sacrifice, taking a life)

Sometimes God’s request contradict His word. (Gen. 22:1-12)

God wants to experience your love for Him. This brings pleasure to God. This is how you get to know yourself and God intimately. (1John 5: 1-5)

God disciplines you this way because all humanity since Adam was born alienated from God and enemies in your minds toward God with no hope of a relationship with God. (Eph. 2:11,12, Col. 1:21)

Humanity is born trusting in his own understanding which has been molded by worldly wisdom to serve and satisfy his desires. These desires are in conflict with God’s plan for humanity. (1 Cor. 1:18-25, Gal. 5:16-18)

The world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father but are from this world. (1 Cor. 5:19, 1 John 2: 16,17)

If the focus of your faith is to only obtain all that the world has to offer, you are to be pitied because you have fallen for Satan’s deception, that a good life is measured in an abundance of possessions.  

If your faith is focused on pleasing God what should you be hoping for? (Heb. 11:6, 1 John 3: 2-6)

So where are you in your faith in God?