We don't like tests, do we? Especially ones that require suffering which we think is unnecessary. But if we are willing to admit it, tests reveal something in us that needs to be healed. How we pass the test depends on how we continue to trust God in the midst.

Bible Reading: Jer. 19-24

Verse of the day: Jeremiah 20:12, "O LORD of hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause."

Word of the day: Test. It is the Hebrew word: בָּחַן (baw-khan').

This word means: to examine, prove, "to put to the test, tempt", examining to determine integrity..