Groped God?

by David Wilkerson

While Jesus was on the highest point of the temple, Satan whispered: "Come on - jump! Are you really the Son of God, he will save you. "

"If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, it is written:" He will command his angels concerning you, and they take you on their hands, why not hit with your foot on a stone " (Matthew 4:6).

You see the cunning of Satan in all this? Has isolated a promise from scriptural context - leading them to Jesus and tried to depend on his life by it. It was as if to suggest: "You say that God is with you. Well, show me. Your Father has already given me permission to torment. Where its presence in all this? You can prove that he is with you making a big jump. If God is with you, you will land on the soft. Then you can be sure he is truly with you. Otherwise it is better to die than to live only for yourself. You need a miracle to prove that the Father is with you. "

How Jesus responded? He said: "He also wrote" I groped the Lord thy God "" (Matt 4:7). What did Jesus say exactly what "groped God"?

Ancient Israel proves this. Ten times the Lord had proved faithful to the Israelites. The people of God had received a tangible proof that the Lord was with them. Yet each time, the people put the same question: "God is among us, yes or no?". God calls this attitude a "temptation" of her. Jesus uses this same phrase - "groped God" - in his response to Satan. What say? Shows that there is a grave sin to doubt God's presence, we must ask whether it is with us or not.

As with Israel, God has already shown enough. First, we have thousands of promises in his word that we speak of his contact with us. Second, we have our own personal history with God - a testimony of his many past releases to us. Third, we have a Bible full of witnesses to attest the presence of God in past centuries.

The Bible is clear: we must walk with God by faith and not by sight. Otherwise, we will end up as Israel was unfaithful.