I promise to fulfill my function as a “prover of God.” That is every Christian’s function, regardless of his occupation or spiritual gift. A prover of God brings God out of the Bible and makes Him alive today.
God loves to be proved. “Prove me now” (Malachi 3:10, KJV, italics added). “Ask a sign for yourself from the Lord” (Isaiah 7:11). He knows that each generation is born skeptical. The Bible must be reborn to every generation. God must break out of print into live action and recreate Bible scenes and activities. Just as God wrote the Bible, so He must repeat the Bible in us. That is why He needs Abrahams, Gideons, Davids, and Pauls today. In short, He needs Godprovers.
George Mueller said he began his orphan home in Bristol for one purpose, “To prove God in our day as formerly.” Exactly! So with us.
Proving God, however, is not easy. It involves the impossible. You do not prove God when you pray for a healing that will occur naturally. Or when you ask God for $10,000 when you already have $20,000 in the bank. Proving God is asking Him to cure the incurable. It is asking Him to give you $10,000 when you have nothing.
But who is sufficient for those heroics? Isn’t life fairly humdrum and prosaic? Doesn’t God come in the “still small voice” (1 Kings 19:12, KJV)?
If so, there is something wrong with our faith. If Satan is still alive, if sin is still man’s habit, and if disease, hunger, and death still stalk, then God must find “provers.” He needs the ordinary man who has extraordinary faith.
The question is, am I willing to risk embarrassment and failure to be a prover of God? That is the nub of it all—to dare God and risk everything on His simple Word. Provers of God are always winners with God.
“Ascribe to the Lord the glory of His name: bring an offering, and come into His courts” (Psalm 96:8).
Daily with the King 