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A Time of Testing

No one looks forward to those pesky mid-term hour-tests in school. Or enduring the three-hour final exams where we are called to demonstrate wisdom in those blue books. But all of life is a time of testing. Never more so as we are called to live into our faith during these forty days of Lent. So often we, as God’s people, fall short of God’s expectations. God’s challenge to us is ‘to be holy, as I am holy.’ Gifted with free will, we stumble and fail to live into our faith. Adam and Eve fall away, lured by the voice of the serpent. As does Judas Isariot, for a pittance of silver. None are perfect. As in the example of Peanuts’ Charlie Brown. Fails constantly. Never wins a baseball game. Can’t kick a football. His kite always crashes into a tree. But our faith journey, like Charlie Brown’s is not measured by perfection. But by persistence. Charlie never gives up hope. Nor must we, as we journey to live in the example of Jesus. Who, as he turns away the blandishments of Satan, offers us the perfect example of faith. Man does not live by bread alone, but by the word of God. Have faith in the Lord thy God, for he will shelter you and keep you safe in times of trouble. Jesus reminds us there are no shortcuts on our journey to the riches awaiting us in the Kingdom of God.