PROVE ME NOW

 EVENING DEVOTION

SEPTEMBER 26

 

Malachi 3:10

…and prove me now …

 
That is, put my faithfulness and veracity to the test.
 
God hath spoken, will he not make it good?
 
He hath promised, will he not fulfil his word?
 
Who can doubt it?
 
But if you do he says, “PROVE ME.”
 
How is this to be done?
 
Search his word and see what he has said.
 
Take his word to his throne and plead it in prayer.
 
Watch, wait, and work as he has directed; and see if he will not do as he has said.
 
When should we prove him?
 
Under conviction, and see if he will not pardon sin.
 
In affliction, and see if his grace is not sufficient for us.
 
In perplexity, and see if he will not make darkness light before us, and crooked things straight.
 
In difficulties and peculiar trials, and see if he will not appear for us, and make a way for our escape.
 
When engaged in his service, and see if godliness is not profitable to all things, having a promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come.
 
Thousands have proved him, and all have found him true and faithful.
 
Let us prove him for ourselves, so shall we become strong in faith, and be ready to bear witness whenever we are required, that his word is true from the beginning.
 
“O taste and see that the Lord is good.”
 

He will not his great self deny;

A God all truth can never lie;

As well might be his being quit,

As break his oath, or word forget.

 
James Smith