Maybe because my major crises started in college, crises often seemed like tests. The good thing is that the questions were usually the same, and I learned, by grace, to ask for the right posture, if you will, to pass the test. I also learned to repent and return to God where I missed a question.
Here are the questions:
Where is your faith? (In what or who am I putting my trust/belief?)
In whom do you trust?
Faith or fear?
Wisdom or panic?
Compassion or judgment?
Focused or frazzled?
Eyes on the King and His kingdom (and associated tasks) or distracted?
Fretting or listening to Him? (Martha or Mary?)
How’d you do? The questions are a self-test, and the answers are between you and God.
Regardless of the answer, please read all of the referenced passage, which contains God’s call to come to Him so that He could give you rest (Matt 11:28-30)
He loves you and will always take care of you. Also, His way is always the best. When you feel unduly burdened, cast your care on Him because He cares for you.
My after-test (and sometimes in-test) prayers were often something along the lines of, “I’m sorry for doing this wrong, I don’t know how to change, but want to, and I believe You’ll help me. Please help.” Not a long prayer, but one that was always answered by our good God. The answer may have looked different than expected, and sometimes not quickly, but it always came.
Keywords: Discipleship, testing