Roots By The Stream Ministries

7 Reasons Why God Tests Us

1.       To see if we really love Him.

Deuteronomy 13:1-3 “…for the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God will all your heart and with all your soul.

2.      To see if our faith is real.

1 Peter 1:6-7 “In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ…”

Job 1:6-12

3.       To reveal our hearts.

2 Chronicles 32:31 “…God withdrew from him in order to test him, that He might know all that was in his heart.”

Jeremiah 17:9-10 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked…I the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

4.      To see if we will take the glory or give it to Him.

Proverbs 27:21 “The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but man is tested by the praise he receives.” (NIV)

5.      To sanctify us and help us produce fruit.

James 1:2-4 “My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.  But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete lacking in nothing.”

6.      So we can depend on Him and then help others.

2 Corinthians 1:1-7 “…God comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.”

7.      To make us worthy of His kingdom and to reward those who overcome.

2 Thessalonians 1:4-5 “…for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure, which is manifest evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer.”