Life isn’t some big Test

 

Lately I find it troubling to believe that trials are designed to teach us something. It just doesn’t sound like God to me it sounds like church doctrine.

So this morning I pull out my Oswald Chambers and here’s what he had to say on the subject.

“It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials: through every cloud He brings, He wants us to unlearn something. His purpose in the cloud (trial) is to simplify our belief.”

In my past I spent so much time trying to figure out what God was “teaching me” and I never could. I guessed and created reasons and most of those failed me. It’s tough to pass the test when you don’t know the teacher and how He operates. We try to make God human when in fact He’s not.

I don’t think my cancer was to teach me anything. I think that cancer cloud was quite simply there to strengthen my belief in Him. He knew what might work and made it happen. He and I, together, worked it out.

We make too much of things and try to over dramatize life to the point, I think, we miss the real reason for those cloudy days and foggy mornings.

Life is not some big pass/fail test we are taking to see if we get to the end. Heaven, to me, isn’t the goal here the goal is simply relationship with God.

If we can start living that way life is much more interesting and rather than trying to make the grade I tend to focus on getting to know the teacher and His pupils.