A Time of Testing

By Venessa Holtzhausen

Psa 7:8 The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.

Psa 11:4 The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
Psa 11:5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

Our God tests the hearts of men. Test in the verses means: to examine, scrutinise. Out motives, decisions, the way we serve Him etc. Pastor Kosie Vermeulen’s wife said: Your words are still hanging in the air and then God judge you by your own words.

Scripture warns us also that the way we judge others, we will be judge ourselves. We can be sometimes so judgemental and forget that we do the same things. It is like, when I was in prayer and fasting, the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said that I preach to others to not be addicted to smoking etc, but I can’t go through a week or a day without a chocolate. My cupboards had chocolates in it, my bedside drawer had chocolates in it, in my fridge, my desk drawer. He clearly told me, how can you talk to others while you yourself are addicted by chocolates.

We have to judge the spirits, what is from God and what not, but the way we sometimes devour each other is not from God. We do not approve of sin, but you cannot at all speak to somebody else, if your own life is not sorted out or if you do not truly love that person.

Let’s guard ourselves and test our motives. Joseph tested his brothers, but he did not rejected his brothers.

Amen!