“My gifts are better than the purest gold, my wages better than sterling silver!” (Proverbs 8:19 NLT).
A gentleman recently interviewed on the radio, spoke of the time in his family when anything purchased had to pass the “table top test.” Before buying things, they would place the electronic or digital device or whatever object was up for purchase upon the table and knock it off. If the object survived the fall unscathed, the family would go ahead and buy.
You see, at the time, they had a 3 year-old, a 2 year-old, a newly adopted 18 month-old—and a new puppy. Everything had to be indestructible. Everything had to stand the table top test.
A wise Christian will use the table top test, too. Will your faith stand being dropped from lofty heights to the gutter in one bad choice, one insincere act or due to a string of words unlovingly placed together? Will what you believe in remain intact and sustainable when you feel as though God’s scooted you off the side of a cliff? Will your peace be evident as you flail wildly in the air on your way to a testing point in your life?
Your faith will be tested, mark it down. You have the opportunity today to decide how it will test out. Your commitments to Bible reading and prayer time are determining the outcome of your testing and the depth of your trust in the Lord.
You’re in one of three places right now:
1. Sitting peacefully on the table, minding your own business.
2. Flattened on the floor, possibly shaken, possibly broken, probably having had the wind knocked out of you.
3. Mid-air.
What will you score? Pass or fail? Strong or weak?
Malinda Edgell
Illinois
PRAY TOGETHER: Pray for Ruth Bivens as she prepares to speak at the WNAC Luncheon in Memphis on July 17.
