Faith Filled Family Magazine August 2016 | Page 113

By Fire

“Stopping at the liquor store to drink
away your day after a rough day?
Satan may have planted that seed,
but he didn’t put the blinker on, push
on the brake pedal and turn into the
liquor store parking lot-you did. This
is a test you gave yourself to take.”
the same mistake twice. Those
who learned from mistakes
without being coddled are more
grounded in mature choices and
actions. Life has tested and
refined them. Life has taught
them valuable lessons. Our faith
is like this too. We are tested and
refined in this world.
God doesn’t lay booby-traps in
our path to see what we will do.

He doesn’t toy with us and our
lives just to see how we will react.
He doesn’t leave us to let us twist
in the wind of life to see us fail.
The test of our faith is not administered by God, but by us and
taken by us. I say this because a
lot of the times, besides attacks
by Satan, we are responsible
for putting ourselves into positions that we shouldn’t be in.
We can’t blame Satan for each

ill we face because, well, we do
it to ourselves. Stopping at the
liquor store to drink away your
day after a rough day? Satan
may have planted that seed, but
he didn’t put the blinker on, push
on the brake pedal and turn into
the liquor store parking lot-you
did. This is a test you gave yourself to take. When you take a
test you are faced with, you only
and always have two choices-do