Deuteronomy 13

There is a vast difference between tempting and testing. In the Lord's Prayer, we pray to not be led away into temptation, meaning, that God will help us with your innate human weakness to succumb to choices that betray our vow of devotion to Christ. James clearly tells us in his epistle that God will never tempt us. Testing is however something very different. God exposes us to situations and circumstances that could very well lead to our choosing disobedience; however, He exposes us to such moments not hoping that we will fail, that's temptation, but to strengthen us, to create for us an opportunity to overcome, a test. Temptation hopes for failure, testing hopes for success! God only every tests...

Pastor Fred