Exam and Test Second Service Elder Raymundo Rodríguez. Guatemala, June 16th. Year of Abundance
Generally, in everyday life, we get to a time of testing after we have gone through a period of teaching, though regularly nobody likes tests. Why? Because we are afraid to fail; we fear to fail the test, and to need to repeat all the preparation we already went through; we are afraid of our results, since we dislike people making fun of us, especially when we are directly involved in something, and even so we fail to pass the test. 2 Corinthians 13:5 (ESV) Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test! The Lord’s call is to test ourselves, even though we dislike it, it is a call from God where we are both judges, and the ones who need to be approved, since the first ones to know the results of the exam are ourselves. 2 Corinthians 13:5 (BRG) Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? Then we need to exercise in the test, yet in order to do so we need to analyze how is our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ doing to verify He truly lives in our hearts. 2 Corinthians 13:5 (GNT) Put yourselves to the test and judge yourselves, to find out whether you are living in faith. Surely you know that Christ Jesus is in you?—unless you have completely failed. The fear would be then to realize that because of our attitudes, we come to the conclusion that the Lord Jesus Christ is not in our hearts; knowing that everything we are taught from the pulpit is to make us aware of many things we need to be careful for, and avoiding them to nestle in our hearts since we need to be ready for the Lord is coming at any moment, and if we fail, we will go up to the clouds to encounter the Lord, but then we will return to finish our preparation for we did not take advantage of this time we have now. Nowadays we have the opportunity to examine ourselves, tomorrow, we will be examined by the Lord Jesus Christ, and then we will see if were truly transparent in our self-evaluation; thus we need to thoroughly examine ourselves with the word of God, and becoming aware of how we are walking, if we are assimilating His Word we will not justify the way the world does it. EXAMINE (according to the Strong’s dictionary) G3985 To test essaying, using. Referring piercing, go far, go beyond, go through. According to this concept, we can state that to be examined means for us to be pierced, to be split in two in order to see what we have inside. We could take another example to cut a fruit in halves to truly know how is it, for it is not enough to look its outward appearance, but we need to split it in two; obviously this could be painful in one’s life, spiritually speaking of course, because as we open our hearts what is really inside will manifest. Thus, the Bible says the works of everybody must be tested so that fire will purify whatever is displeasing God. This study is allowed to be copied and printed by any mean, only if the source of the information is quoted.
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