Emphasis Preaching Journal

The testing of our faith is a reality we all experience again and again. However, it is the peril of overconfidence in our own abilities that so often reveals our true weakness. Many people are put off by the old gospel of human helplessness. They are quite confident if God does bring them to an experience of moral testing, they will pass it with flying colors. They should listen to the apostle's warning, "Let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall." A.