“And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God ….” How does He know? By action; by works. Before it was by faith. Now God sees your heart. He knows whether you’re genuine or not. But your neighbor doesn’t know; your friends don’t know. They can only know by works. And that’s the reason James can say that “faith without works is dead.” It has to produce something. Any person that God calls, any person God saves, any person that God uses is going to be tested. He tests you and me today, and these are tests that are given to us to strengthen our faith and to establish it, and make us serviceable for Him.