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Prove It

One spring evening in 1992, a teenage girl, who didn’t really understand what she was getting into, decided to die with Christ in baptism. On a winter evening, 21 years later, her son just died.

In one of hundreds of sympathy cards, a message from God arrived. Though written by the hand of a teenage boy from Florida, it spoke God’s message not his own. Addressed to her husband it said,

I have no understanding of the pain you are going through, but I do understand this. When you and your wife chose to give God your life you issued God a challenge. Psalm 26:2-3 “Prove me, O Lord, and try me; test my heart and my mind . For your steadfast love is before my eyes, and I will walk in your faithfulness.”

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A challenge indeed. This woman had issued hundreds of challenges through her declarations of faith. Every time she said, “I am a Christian” the challenge was issued. Again and again, her life said “prove it.” Jesus said, “yes, prove it.” She wrote these words herself:

2012 saw some of the deepest turmoil of our lives but also some of the most intimate glances of God’s careful provision through it all. I am resolved to face 2013 with a trusting faith that will go through the valley again if He asks me to.

Prove it! Five days later her son died.

She has cried thousands of tears. She has wept. She has moaned. She has cried out to heaven for mercy. She is walking through the valley. And she is still clinging to Jesus. She won’t let go. She has anchored herself in the truth that Jesus gives life.

And the words of heaven said, as they did to Abraham thousands of years ago, “Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son” (Gen. 22:12).

So today she asks, what are you withholding from God? If you dare wear the name Christian you have issued the same challenge to God to prove you. Maybe its the circumstances of your marriage, your single hood, your money, your grief, your anger, your sorrow. .. your son. Today, the challenge is issued. Prove it!

Jan 23, 2013Serena
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  1. Dana Carrozza
    10 years ago

    Yes! Indeed Prove It!!

    How few Christians feel the need or understand the Importance to Prove it to God!!

    Do we not desire our mates to Prove It that they Love us? How much More so is our Love to God?!

    To Prove something implies that you are actually Doing Something!!

    A sweet sister in Christ told me just this week that they desired to help by Hosting for a few weeks an orphan child…but their son didn’t want to be “Bothered” by having to play with him. “So” she said very glibly “we won’t be hosting an orphan because it really is too much to ask of
    our son!”
    James 1:27. Is definite….our interpretation is “only if it is Convenient!”

    We can Prove our Love in 2 ways…..that we
    Do indeed Love HIM.
    We Love Others/Ourselves more than HIM!!

    We Love Others More than HIM!!

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  2. Droo
    10 years ago

    Good grief, sister. What amazing maturity by that teenager. The truth is permeating, and the declaration of the last part of that verse, “and I will walk in your ways.” is an extremely bold statement. I have come to know you and Dan so clearly cling to him, it is like white-knuckles on a steering wheel, so tightly moored that to let go would be unbearable. But above all, it seems your motivation is not desperation, but sanctification, continuing its work in your souls by the Holy Spirit. Overshadowing it all is his love for us; his laying down of himself is by God’s authority.

    Sunday when I preached, I spoke from John 10. “I have authority to lay down my own life, and take it back again.” I have authority. I am the Good Shepherd. I lay down my life for the sheep. Far too difficult to comprehend is WHY he loved us that much, but again, the question is not WHY, but WHO he is. He is love, he is peace, and he is the good shepherd who lays down his life for the sheep. Putting himself in harm’s way for us, protecting and nourishing us with his pasture.

    I pray that our Savior leads you into pasture. Pasture is for freedom. Pasture is LIFE, and not the artificial life behind the pen’s gate. Pasture makes us free to dance, frolic, and play, and pasture is where we follow the Good Shepherd in faith.

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  3. Diana Dow
    10 years ago

    Powerful words to challenge me by this morning. Thank you.

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  4. Michelle Shutt
    10 years ago

    Encouraging words to start my day. My love and prayers are with you. I ask you to pray for my mom as she struggles with MS. She is now in the hospital. Lord willing she will be released today. She faces her challenges with confidence and faith daily but her body fights against her.

    Thank you . I too strive to prove it!!

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    • Serena
      10 years ago

      Thank you! And praying now for your mother.

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